Word: widespread
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...want the Foundation to be so administered that it will result in better homes, better schools, better and more intelligent people, healthier and happier conditions of life, greater morality and more widespread regard for the love of God and the Gospel of Christ...
...From Baltimore, Md., came news that the Religious Society of Friends were alarmed over "vice conditions . . . widespread disease and moral degradation," to which they had heard U. S. sailors were exposed on the Yangtse Kiang (river), China. President Coolidge and Secretary of the Navy Wilbur were asked to investigate...
...Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., Prof. Miller D. Steever, bet a "good cigar" that Roland S. Finley, senior student, could not get a job within 24 hours because "it was hard even for a man willing to work to get a job." This was to prove that unemployment was widespread in the U. S., "a serious indictment of our social organization...
...could greatly pare down the profits of many other automobile concerns. . . . He could occasion widespread unemployment among employes of automobile concerns other than his own. He could turn his attention to lines of" manufacturing other than automobiles. He could take a financial loss for a time which would be large in actuality, but small relatively, and still remain . . . the richest man in the world. He could sell a million cars next year at $100 less than cost per car. Such a program . . . would make a very small net difference in the total value of Mr. Ford's estate...
...heaped on his unfortunate head. He is, after all, only fulfilling his election promise--to keep Chicago from the clutches of King George--and it is time that some of the ridicule descended on the voters of America's second city who elected him on such a basis. If widespread and uncharitable laughter pursues a town already famous for the antics of gunmen, the blame lies more with its citizens than wit hits Mayor, who is after all only their representative; and if Chicagoans weary of being told to make their city streets safe for Americans before bothering themselves about...