Word: widespread
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years as Bishop of London, Dr. Ingram has made for himself a unique place in the hearts of the English speaking world. His talks to Oxford and Cambridge students have had widespread influence, not alone because of their wisdom and substance, but by virtue of their informality, and the Bishop's gerius in meeting diversified viewpoints. He says quite frankly that the whole of his visits to the student bodies at the various colleges "will be quite spoilt if it consists in an endless succession of sermons and addresses...
...invite attention to another aspect of our political life and to some widespread misconceptions relating to it namely, the party system. Nowhere does the fundamentalist character of our political creed disclose itself more plainly than here. A political party is commonly defined as a large group of men and women who profess allegiance to common principles and who think alike on public questions. We are asked to believe, in fact, that voters choose a political party as the outcome of their own thought and reflection. In reality this is very seldom the case. Far more often the voter's allegiance...
Stoughton Bell '60, of Boston, is chairman for the States of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut in the drive for funds. That widespread support of the compaign will come not only from the public is forecast by W. M. Powell '98, of New York City, who is national chairman of the campaign...
...Author. Roy Floyd Dibble, a. gentleman of 39, obtained a Ph. D. at Columbia University in 1921 and later instructed there, in English. Soon after its inception, the American Mercury enlisted his caustic nib, as has the Century Magazine. Last year he caused widespread delight with a biography of the late and eminent pugilist, John L. Sullivan (TIME, April...
CONSERVATION OF THE FAMILY- Paul Popenoe-Williams & Wilkins ($3). How widespread and militant are the "enemies" of the family is conjectural. And how effectively their convictions (or lack of them) might be refuted by a treatise soundly but exclusively sociobiological, is also a question. Nevertheless, Biologist Popenoe's sound book, the first in its field, is far more than an academic disputation. It is advanced with the prime intention of promoting study of the family, per se, through the biologist's lens. Consequently it is packed with orderly, unsensational, valuable facts-the cell- scientist's facts...