Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After they had taken up their posts through the field Governor Sterling proclaimed martial law, ordered every one of the 1,600 flush wells in the 2,815 sq. mi. of Upshur. Gregg, Rusk and Smith Counties shut down. Last week this field, running wide open, produced an all-time record of 738,000 bbl. This week under the Governor's orders they were to produce not a barrel. Proclaimed Governor Sterling...
...stated topic of the World's Conference, which followed preliminary gatherings at Toronto last fortnight, was "Youth's Adventure with God." As is usual at such conferences, the Y. M. C. A. concerned itself chiefly with international problems on which it hopes that its busy world-wide membership may have some influence. Delegates from 50 countries last week passed resolutions calling for revision of the Versailles Treaty, abolition of tariff barriers, abolition of national armaments. The German delegation held separate meetings to draw up a resolution absolving Germany of sole War guilt, later endorsed by the other delegates...
Three decades had passed since muddy San Francisco had been transformed to a city built on nuggets and gold dust. A new social order was being created; life was becoming stable; respectability and stolidity were in the air. But there were still those who lived high, wide & handsome. The old Poodle Dog, Tail's, the Cliff House and Coffee Dan's had no lack of carefree customers...
...life as a pilgrimage through many pitfalls for gay rewards. This is the import of almost every Negro spiritual; it is the import of a morality play called Heaven Bound which has made its appearance in Atlanta, performed by the choir of Big Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church. First wide public to hear about Heaven Bound was the theatrical world. Theatre Guild Magazine for August called it "the first great American folk drama" and said: "It should and probably will make Georgia an American Oberammergau." Recalling the power of The Green Pastures, a Negro religion play written by a white...
...crashing climax of Director Golterman's Aïda came with the triumph of the Egyptian king at the Act II finale. Eight hundred voices (including the Aframerican chorus) filled the wide night air, 100 dancing girls disported before the monarch and on the lawn in front of the mammoth stage were massed Egyptians on real camels† and a troop of the Cleveland mounted Police disguised as Bedouins...