Word: widespread
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hospital to attend to "the small things in every single department that could possibly contribute the best work-from the initial diagnosis to the use of the knife." Thrifty, but not businesslike, he has left to his brother the management of their donations and of that discreet but widespread publicity which taught the world the excellence of the mousetraps of Rochester. Charles is inflexible in body as in brain. When asked to face the camera, he leaves his feet planted in the direction they are taking, rotates his chunky body solemnly from the hips. His brother, who looks like...
...universal storm of protest as revealed in now extant newspapers seems to show how deeply this fatal restriction of the chief incentive of American business was resented, and how widespread was the resultant depression. None, when faced with such evidence, can deny the probability that this psychological catastrophe may have broken the spirit of an emotional people, and left them defenceless against material disaster; but much hard work remains to be done after the manner of these brilliant discoveries before all the mists of the past are blown away, and the aboriginal American is seen and understood by the modern...
...place in spite of its rigorous discipline, for the little colony which grew up around him assumed the name of Cambridge. This incident also confirms the growing suspicion of the old dictum that American decadence was due to religious toleration, for this habit does not seem to have been widespread at this or at any other period of their history...
...protest of the Atlantic City Chamber of Commerce shows, anxiety has become widespread, and, as Senator Edge of New Jersey gives warning, casualties may be expected to follow. In that event, the Coast Guard in the eyes of every sane person will be guilty of nothing short of murder. It lies in its power to forestall any such eventuality and modify its tactics to restore rights of citizens. Its duty perhaps includes the stopping of many boats, but there must be ways of stopping them without shooting at them. And even if it means a few boats get away...
...time was when Chicago meat packers had become an important factor in distributing other food products. Their widespread agencies, with 'transportation connections and refrigerator facilities, made it possible for them to distribute many grocery articles more cheaply than had been done previously...