Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...m.p.h. in London. At Worcester, where a dozen main roads converge on a single narrow bridge, lines of cars and trucks stretch as far as the eye can see. The Queensferry bridge over the River Dee-on the main route from the north in Wales-is barely wide enough for two lines of vehicles, and five-mile traffic jams are normal. The last piece of major road construction in London was built 50 years ago. A brand-new cloverleaf at nearby Chiswick, nearing completion after two years' work, is already conceded to be inadequate...
...muskeg, Spock would wipe the sweat from his mustache, wolf a huge supper, and unroll his blackboard. His afterhours task: teaching basic English to 40 sunburned Galician laborers. "I didn't get very far," recalls Dr. Spock, who has since lost the mustache, become a pediatrician and won wide fame as an expert on the horticulture of babies. "They thought I was a spy for the Canadian Pacific...
...three years here at Wellesley, neither my friends nor I have ever been in any class where the discussion was voluntarily participated in by more than 50 per cent of the class. Throughout the article a great point is made of the freedom of, abundance of, and wide participation in class discussion. There is often excellent discussion in our classes, but I think that it has been over-emphasized in your article...
...industry-wide basis, U.S. publishers pay their shop crews for 22 holidays. In various parts of the country these include Jefferson Davis Day, Pioneer Day, San Jacinto Day, and, on some papers, the worker's birthday...
Although many of Admiral Strauss' most controversial activities stemmed from honest and respectable convictions, his tactics in support of these convictions have been those of the shyster. The wide-spread opposition to Strauss among physicists stems not only from antagonism to his beliefs, but also--and in the main--from a fear of his methods. In a position to make decisions of the greatest importance to the United States and the world, Strauss constantly refused to make the public a party to any of the broad policy arguments which he arbitrated. His abhorrence for candor is his major fault...