Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wide-eyed, naïve Mr. Rumrich set the theme for as fantastic a comedy as ever made fools of peepsters. He got $290 a month from the Germans. They got: 1) Government weather reports (available to anybody); 2) a subscription to the unofficial Army & Navy Register (which welcomes subscribers); 3) a Government Printing Office list of Army & Navy publications (free to all); 4) continuous assurances, often delivered by transatlantic messenger, that invaluable information would be turned up most...
...Shansi Province last week, almost 300 miles north of Hankow, Communist guerrillas, fighting far behind Japanese front lines, continued to slash communication lines, ambush food and reinforcement convoys. From Hankow Japanese forces fanned out in a wide circle 200 miles in circumference, feeling for stray Chinese bands...
...Leon Trotsky, antedates but probably does not surpass André Breton's. From Mexico last summer Poet Breton and Painter Diego Rivera issued a furious manifesto, calling on all independent revolutionary intellectuals, "whose voice is drowned by the odious tumult of the regimented falsifiers," to form a world-wide union against the oppression of art by any political regime, especially the Stalinist...
...Nazi-land meet its huge monetary obligations. The present Hitler imposition of a $400,000,00 "fine" on the German Jews is a recrimination seldom paralleled in peace-time history. Of war indemnity proportions, this "fine" represents a persecution of such concentrated and vicious nature as to arouse world-wide condemnation. Enforced by a reign of terror reported second only to that of the French Revolution, the Nazi demands show a desire to return the Jewish people to the days of the Ghetto...
Over the long run the scarcity of men of the caliber of Dean Matthews has been only too obvious. In the past few years Dean Sperry has followed two contradictory lines of approach; he has gone far and wide in an endeavor to find really good men, and he has at the same time insisted on giving local pastors a chance to cultivate the Harvard field. While some of these are excellent men, others are invited merely because they have a "stake in the Harvard community," or because such invitations have been extended in the past--and the popularity...