Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shock like the one it endured last week. After crossing the Bering Sea without mishap and effecting a comparatively happy landing at Petropavlovsk, near the tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula, the Lindbergh troubles began. They continued for four days while headlines describing the oriental odyssey in occidental newspapers grew wide with astonishment...
...This year the route for 120 feet was through the flank and then for a rope's length [80 ft.] through an ice couloir. After that one stood on a wide rib leading in a few minutes, rather easily, to the terrace of Camp Eight...
...rock over which the rest of the rope was double slung. We proceeded to Camp Eight, where we recalled Hartmann and Dr. Wien, for the whole party to descend and search for our poor friends. Six in all passed the night on an ice ledge a metre wide on the range of the couloir. Next day almost the entire expedition gathered in the highest basin of the Zemu Glacier...
...exhort passing citizens-workers from the foundries, the machine shops, the glass factories, attendants at the State Insane Asylum, farmers from Stark County-to vote for him as Republican nominee for Mayor. With the fervor of an evangelist promising heaven, the old campaigner in his stand-up collar and wide-brimmed black hat promised Massillon a new municipal water works and reduced water rates if he were elected...
...happy summer of 1929, Cyrus Stephen Eaton was a director of 19 companies. In three directorates he was on the executive committee, in four chairman of the board. The companies ranged over a wide field, from Bowman-Biltmore Hotels Corp. to National Refining Co., included steel, rubber, paints and power...