Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years geologists have wondered what physiographic (earth-changing) agency caused wide alluvial plains-like the nine-mile valley floor east of Troy, N. Y.-which are out of all proportion to the deposits attributable to their present small streams. Last week Geologists Rudolf Ruedemann and Walter J. Schoonmaker of the New York State Museum solved the riddle, and at the same time implied that either geologists should get outdoors more or, when they did get out, should be looking at other things besides rocks. The physiographic force which had caused the Troy plain, and others like it, was the beaver...
...Crimson quintet kept that ball moving in the second half, and they proved that they could drive up the floor quickly when the opportunity presented itself. The team worked as a unit, and Northeastern found their tight man-for-man defense of the first period split wide open...
...Mount Sanford trip penetrated into a region, which cartographers have never even attempted to map and which is in the form of a strip of land 40 miles wide and extending for 125 miles along the Pacific coast. Located in the center of the Chugach Range about 50 miles from the Pacific Ocean. Saint Agnes pierces the clouds to a height of 13,250 feet above sea level...
During the wide spread poliomyelitis epidemic in 1931, there arose an urgent need for some more effective mans to save the live patients with paralysed lungs than the Drinker respirator. To the rescue came John H. Emerson, who was at that time manufacturing scientific apparatus in over Woolworth's on Brattle Street...
Over and against these weaknesses is the general attitude of broadmindedness which has characterized the Committee's work. The active interest of all groups concerned, including the Student Council, should prove to the most skeptical that the movement represents a wide and disinterested group of undergraduates. It is to be earnestly hoped that this, together with the nationally recognized brilliance and sincerity of tonight's speakers, will draw an audience from every stratum of Harvard Life. But it is the University's duty to discover if the aims of a high-minded minority are realized, if the drive has created...