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Word: widespread (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long as the American economic fibre is as it is now, there will be no call for widespread Labor agitation here nor will the Labor party succeed in England until it is unified under strong leaders, and succeeds in winning to its standard some of the districts that, under the glow of success, now stand aloof. When these districts and industries see the good that may be done by Labor united the party will be on the road to greater power...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kenneth Lindsey, British Labor Leader, Compares Virtues and Faults of English and American Economic Policies | 11/26/1926 | See Source »

...allowed to air his views, would surely lead to a more healthy condition of affairs than that fostered by the careful exclusion policy of Secretary Kellogg. The trite speeches of uninteresting radicals will surely do less to harm the great American public than the overthrow of a policy of widespread education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THIS FREEDOM | 11/18/1926 | See Source »

Ambassador without Portfolio, Will Rogers explains in his own words his widespread activities during the European trip from which he has just returned. The author, like Artemus Ward, is another of those subtle critics of society whose with gives him the precious license to say what he thinks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOME NOTABLE FALL BOOKS | 11/15/1926 | See Source »

...departure of Professor G. P. Baker '87, and the removal of the 47 Workshop from Cambridge to New Haven did not, contrary to a widespread belief, mean the end of all serious dramatic activities at Harvard. There still remains an organization which, though young when compared with the Workshop, has built up for itself a solid and worthy reputation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Historians Unfold Long and Honorable Career of Dramatic Club--New Production Is Under Way | 11/9/1926 | See Source »

...these keynotes sounded, the conference listened-not without interruptions from extremists-to the reigning "old guard" of the party: 1) One-time Premier Macdonald: "We have consulted as to the best means of helping the miners with the heads of other unions, and I am perfectly appalled at the widespread unemployment of union men. . . . The solution of the problem now lies in political rather than industrial action. Had my Government [Jan.-Nov., 1924] remained in office another year we would have introduced a bill for nationalization of the mines. We must work toward that end. . . ."; 2) James Henry Thomas, "Balance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sightless Samsons | 10/25/1926 | See Source »

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