Word: widespread
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American College of Physicians met in New Orleans last week, for its twelfth annual clinical session. Many were the papers and widespread the interests of the physicians and scientists there assembled...
...doubt the widespread feeling that successes in a class-room are useless after leaving college is due to the achievements of those men of real ability who were not able to derive any benefit from such an education and failed to distinguish themselves as students. The figures obtained by these two independent sources, however, show clearly that such men are rare exceptions, and that for the most part those who score by their academic pursuits at college will continue their success after graduation...
Among the dogmas of the intelligentsia, from earliest times onward, has stood the belief that opera was not to be done in English; and this belief has very naturally been the parent of a widespread conviction, that opera, in America, is an entertainment only for the elite. Mr. George Eastman, always enthusiastic for community improvement, defied both of these doctrines in his theater at Rochester; skepticism has given way to applause, and the American Opera Company, surviving the early lances of critics, will visit Boston with a reputation already made...
...unaware that he, or someone, had started this widespread story, John Coolidge was last week more concerned over the publicity Deceived by Miss Sally Kunsig of Mount Vernon, N. Y., whom he often goes to see at Mount Holyoke College (South Hadley, Mass.) and who, after he had escorted her to Amherst's "senior hop" last fortnight, was hailed in the press as the successful rival of Miss Florence Trumbull, daughter of Connecticut's Governor...
From such high opinion it is difficult to differ. Last week the young woman quietly rested on her claims and did not challenge a widespread assertion that her expenses in the U. S. will be defrayed by rich Mrs. William B. Leeds, the onetime Princess Xenia of Russia, now sojourning in the fashionable West Indies. Finally, observers recalled that Berlin police detectives long ago satisfied themselves that the young woman is Franziska Schanzkowski, a Polish peasant, born on the sixteenth of December 1896, at Borowielass in Pomerania...