Word: widespread
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London and indeed throughout England the most widespread sympathy was expressed for the families of the 68 officers and men who went down with the M1. It was recalled that her Commander, Lieutenant Alec M. Carrie, had been married only eleven months. A Mrs. Bertie Jones, wife of one of the submarine's petty officers, was harkened to with indignation when she asserted that her husband had often told her that "the M1's machinery frequently went wrong...
...Widespread relief was felt throughout Germany at this development, and it was generally considered that the Government's chances for securing ratification of the Locarno Treaties by the Reichstag had been greatly improved...
...raised by the date of the sesquicentennial, was proposed with three objects in view: the erection of a Phi Beta Kappa building at William and Mary College in Williamsburg, Va., as a memorial to the fifty founders of the fraternity: the financing of a program for promoting a more widespread recognition of the value of high scholarship among university, college, and high school students; and the support of the regular activities of the fraternity. The goal of the fund is $1,000,000 equivalent to a contribution of $25 by every member of the fraternity. Construction of the memorial building...
...know what I have been seeking. Harvard is so huge and widespread and complex that no Freshman can stand in one place, and with his eyes upon one spot, say "This is Harvard." And I greatly doubt if anyone else can. What I want to find is something eminently symbolic which in my mind will mean Harvard, prue and simple...
...CRIMSON prints today the comments of E. M. Borchard, a member of the opposition to the widespread movement for American participation in the World Court, a cause recently emphasized by the inauguration of an intercollegiate campaign among undergraduates throughout the country...