Word: widespread
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...money destined for a Court fete was expended in toto to relieve the widespread misery caused by the recent disastrous floods (TIME, Jan. 11, INTERNATIONAL). The Queen's almost fanatically devoted subjects were roused from their usual respectful but undemonstrative attitude. Whenever Queen Wilhelmina rode out last week she was greeted by deep-throated yet melodious* cheers...
...national institution before the coming of the public high school system, which relegated private education to a special, a subordinate place in the democracy's pedagogical program. It is most improbable that the appointment of a new headmaster at The Hill, Lawrenceville, Hotchkiss, Taft or Exeter would occasion the widespread editorial comment that greeted the appointment of Dr. Cyril Norwood, master of Marlborough College, as first lay master of Harrow, last month in England...
...ancient taste for art confined to princely personages. That it was widespread among the people appears from the artistic character of armor, statuettes, costumes, coiffures, furniture, and household utensils, such as goblets, dishes, knives, and weights...
...widespread civilization as well as a high one, for it left the carved facades of its urban centres over what is now British Honduras, Southeastern Mexico, two-thirds of Guatemala and part of "Spanish Honduras." To this oldest American civilization archaeologists have agreed to give the name Maya(pronounce the first three letters like the pronoun my). This is a name of uncertain origin, connected with a late Yucatan capital called Mayapan. It has been extended to cover a great nation which once numbered many millions...
These nine lectures are part of the general course on religion, which is being given under the auspices of Phillips Brooks House for the second successive year. The course has met with widespread approval and has been steadily attended by an average of between 400 and 500 people every Sunday...