Word: widespread
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Egypt. Declaring that Khedive Abbas Hilmy Pasha, dethroned ruler of Egypt, was seeking to foment trouble in the country, the Egyptian Government massed-troops at various Egyptian ports. Widespread uneasiness ensued...
...Summary. "I indict the Republican Party in its organized capacity for having shaken public confidence to its very foundations. I charge it with having exhibited deeper and more widespread corruption than any that this generation of Americans has been called upon to witness. I charge it with complacency in the face of that corruption and with ill will toward the efforts of honest men to expose it. I charge it with gross favoritism to the privileged and with utter disregard of the unprivileged. I charge it with indifference to world peace and with timidity in the conduct of our foreign...
Just now the market for silver in European countries is distinctly good. Europe is weary of everlasting paper bills of doubtful value, but scarcely ready as yet to return to a pure gold standard. As a result, there is widespread demand for silver coins. Over 3,000,000 ounces of silver has been sold by American companies to Poland, to be coined into Polish token money. The German Government has under consideration a 30,000,000-ounce order for silver. Austria has resumed silver coinage at her own mint, and Russia is considering the coinage of silver money. Ultimately...
...grasp the idea. A large majority of undergraduates also do not grasp the idea the difference is that they don't read the books. The results are far less dramatic, but they are, as the professor points out, even more serious because they are so much more widespread. New York Tribune...
...doubtless come as a surprise to learn what a large number of interesting and important specimens of Greek sculpture may be found at the Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University. The fame of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston as a repository of objects of Classical Art is widespread, not only in this country, but abroad...