Word: wideness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...farm organization whose 408,000 members in 40 States are a more united force than the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, 62-year-old Ed O'Neal has been since 1931 the most influential farm leader in the land. When Henry Wallace projected AAA which required a nation-wide executive setup to estimate crop acreages, the Farm Bureau's 1,800 functioning county organizations stepped into the breach and Ed O'Neal stepped into the Administration. Although the New Deal's lavish benefit payments helped all farm organizations, they helped big Farm Bureau Federation most. When...
...through gloomy mountain chasms the dwarfs force the Queen to the edge of a precipice and a thunderbolt tumbles her over. Snow White seems dead, but the dwarfs cannot bear to part from her. They let her sleep in a glass coffin. One day the Prince, wandering far and wide, hears of the girl who lies asleep in a glass box and when he sees her, kisses her. Snow White awakes and there is gaiety...
Visible light does not penetrate thick fog, but visible light is only a small segment on the wide spectrum of electro-magnetic radiation. Radiation which is too long in wave length to be seen, called infra-red and embracing wireless waves of all lengths, has the faculty of sliding around obstacles such as fog particles. Therefore an artificial eye which "sees" by infra-red radiation appears to offer the best hope of piercing...
...tenements, brightens the lives of the boy's down-at-heels father (Guy Usher), his toneless, defeated mother (Marjorie Main) and the little girl in the next flat (Maureen O'Connor), who sings pathetic songs in the voice of a younger, fresher Helen Morgan. Actress Main won wide acclaim for her portrayal of "Babyface" Martin's mother in the stage and screen versions of Dead End. Cinema newcomer Maureen O'Connor is a radio veteran...
which made its first appearance in the Monthly? There also, as we learn from this Christmas Number, appeared Robinson's "Richard Cory", and two poems of John Hall Wheelock's included in his collected writings after a wide distribution through anthologies. The college friend to whom, as "Edwin", one of them was addressed is now acknowledged in a revised line, as Van Wyck Brooks, who is himself represented here in a spirited poem contributed to the "Monthly...