Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...company records are more important than most of the others during the period, partly because of the long space of time which they cover (from 1850 to 1890) and partly because of the wide field of business which the company represented. There are records of prices of everything from groceries and whiskey to nails and machinery, whose fluctuations mark the period of prosperity during the gold rush, and the corresponding depression...
With an air of being just as bewildered about life as you are, James Thurber gives advice on peculiar pets, grammatical teasers. He tells in a wide-eyed way how Mr. Monroe was an open book to Mrs. Monroe though he fancied himself cleverly written. One of the puzzling problems in the "Pet Department": "My police dog has taken to acting very strange, on account of my father coming home from work every night for the past two years and saying to him, 'If you're a police dog, where's your badge?' after which he laughs (my father...
...Machine. An autogiro has a fuselage and tail surfaces like that of the conventional airplane; also it has the usual motor & propeller in its nose, and uncommonly wide landing gear. But in place of a wing is an abortive stub with upturned tips, affixed as on a low-wing monoplane, to provide lateral stability, to carry the ailerons and to provide a mounting for the undercarriage. The real supporting surfaces (i. e. wings) are embodied in four great rotating blades, or vanes, affixed to an upright tripod. It is this rotor that gives the ship its windmill appearance and that...
...wide variety is included among the objects which pass thus to the Fogg Museum. The collection has that individuality which is the expression of personal taste and a desire to be surrounded by objects which are lovely in themselves and catch the individual fancy. It was made to be lived with, not to illustrate any particular school or field...
...gazing out across the wide and lovely and silent desert. Undulating, pastel tinted. A white handkerchief knotted at each of the four corners rested upon the famous shock of curly grey hair...