Word: widespread
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...numbers are good," said Mr. Tweedy recently, "and the record is encouraging. There is a widespread feeling that the services have been truly devotional and helpful, and that at least a few good things have been accomplished...
...first quotation might have been the remark of an imbecile or an ignoramus who hated professors. The second formed the prelude to a portion of the speech in which II Duce dealt with the widespread rumor that his police are a veritable tsar's cheka. He said: "It was necessary to weed out police, especially the plain clothes police. . . . When police are in plain clothes and have not the check of uniform they must be composed of picked men-zealous and silent citizens...
When the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill, British Chancellor of the Exchequer, read the mutilated but widespread copy of the Mellon letter he became vexed. In the Balfour note of 1922, Great Britain had stated her policy of collecting from her War allies and Germany only enough of the money they owed her to meet her own debt payments to the U. S. If the Mellon letter was true, Britain was not living up to the Balfour note in collecting money from her War allies when collections from Germany were enough to meet her obligations...
...president of the Chamber, to give all his time to the organization. He is chairman of the board of the American Exchange-Irving Trust Co., 13th largest bank, in point of deposits, in the world. But because his domestic and foreign banking, industrial and public utility affiliations are so widespread and so intricate, one hour's conference with him as president of the Chamber will bring more positive result than five hours' conference with a less extraordinary executive...
...excuse for the present report is its relation to the eating situation. And since the above examination has proved, to the satisfaction of the CRIMSON, that this is not the solution to that problem it feels that the report is a failure in this particular respect. As a widespread appeal to clubmembers to let down the bars it is an effective presentation. Its impracticability otherwise is unsatisfactory...