Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Derby, Conn., 10 mi. west of New Haven, the Housatonic River runs into a wide curve above a mill dam. Two miles above the dam, three crews last week waited for the start of the Carnegie Cup race. In the Yale boat, as the result of the latest of many shifts by Irascible Coach Ed Leader, Dave Manuel sat at the No. 6 slide in place of James Gamble Rogers Jr., the architect's son and varsity captain who had occupied it for two years. The Cornell boat, almost unchanged from the one which won the Poughkeepsie Regatta against...
...side industry popular among U. S. countryfolk is raising rabbits to sell for fur and meat. But last week into the bankruptcy court of East St. Louis, Ill., marched Mrs. Anna R. Brown of Chester, Ill., a rabbit-raiser of wide renown. She had debts of $39,570. Her only assets were 300 rabbits. Like other big rabbit-raisers, Mrs. Brown had done business in this fashion: Starting with a few rabbits of pedigreed stock, she would farm out pairs of their offspring to smaller raisers, promising to buy the grandchildren back at $2 a head.* Then she would market...
...Sometimes the none too subtle flattery of "American intelligence" does the trick. In one instance the romantic suggestion that ginger ale "aged six months" rivals fine Sauterne and that other brands are as unwholesome as very green apples was evidently successful enough to warrant the expense of a nation-wide campaign. This dishonesty in spirit is surpassed in many cases by willful misstatements of facts...
...international Law, Modern History, Economics and Languages. However, it is the general experience that not only the college degree, but some graduate work is almost necessary in order to pass these examinations and about 95 per cent of the whole Service is made up of college graduates representing a wide variety of the universities of this country...
Electric power production, after weeks of wide fluctuation, last week seemed stable at 86.2% of normal against 96.2% last year...