Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week twelve war planes from China (said by the Japanese to be Soviet planes) finally flew across the 120-mile-wide Formosa Strait, escorted by pursuit planes, and rained bombs on Japanese-owned Formosa. They flew so high that accurate bombing was impossible. From the ground the attacking craft could be seen with the naked eye only as minute specks. Eight were killed, 29 wounded. Property damage was small...
...though some of the undergraduate authors were overpowered by their own sense of scientific responsibility: their method is cautiously conservative, their style weighted by terminology. Perhaps there is stage fright behind such mimicry. Whatever the cause, its effects are not conducive to first-rate journalism. Here is a wide realm for editorial guidance...
...John Paul Jones is the best known in history and balladry. Son of a Scotch gardener, a true corsair and soldier of fortune, he served first under John Barry and Hopkins. When given command of a sloop, he sailed to Brest, seized many sloops of war, and gained world-wide fame...
...after a bit of research it sems that if a space one foot high, 18 inches wide and six feet high, 18 inches wide and six feet six inches long (allowing room for a hat) were alloted to each student, the entire 3700 students in Harvard College would fit into the room, with space left for a lecturer as well as his notes, and, providing the two Greek statues were removed, for three section men. The volume of space required is 60 by 40 by 15 feet...
Catholic in her teaching principles, Mile Boulanger has teethed a varied crew of composers: conservatives like Quinto Maganini, Douglas Moore and Virgil Thomson; wide-open Westerners like Oklahoma-born Roy Harris; jazz-bred Manhattanites like Aaron Copland and Marc Blitzstein; rip-roaring cacophonists like Walter Piston. But when the late George Gershwin visited her in Paris, proposed himself as a pupil, it took her only ten minutes to say no. Said Mile Boulanger: "I had nothing to offer him. He was already quite well known when he came to my house, and I suggested that he was doing all right...