Word: widespread
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Political Party in individual countries. This motion was defeated. Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, wife of the Governor of Pennsylvania, opposed it. She declared : " I believe in the active participation of women in politics inside the political parties. ... I have found that they are realists in politics as opposed to the widespread sentimentality among men. . . . they still tend to resort to public opinion to support their program...
Hungary is reported to be on the brink of a revolution. The principal reason given is that there is a widespread distrust of the present Government. The rapidly falling crown has also a good deal to do with the discontent...
...Youth" movement, which is widespread in Germany and is extending its influence to the rest of Europe and to America, is a revolt against intellectual complacence, and self-satisfied smugness. It has resulted in Germany in the "Wander-lovers", bands of young people who are walking about seeing their country at first hand, and interesting themselves in everything. In America, its evidences are chiefly oratory, intercollegiate conferences, and the springing up all over the land of student discussion societies and publications devoted to criticism. Apparently the revolution that Sir James Barrie advocated of Youth against its Betters has finally made...
Just as the goal of every Moslem's heart is Mecca, so the goal of every senator's heart seems to be the continent of Europe. The latter goal is widespread, but all the more room for observation and criticism--a vast area for picking up moral gems in favor of isolation. At the present time, Senator Hirarn Johnson is on his pilgrimage through this tempestuous land of strains and stressed and is last approaching the Ruhr, determined to seek out the rights and wrongs of matters there...
...according to the government meteorologists. For instance, 73,320 tons of moisture would have to be drawn into the air to cause a rainfall of only one inch over an area of even one square mile, an amount which would be negligible in an arid region like Ari- zona. Widespread drought is due to lack of water in the air, and obviously no device can bring down what is not there. Proposals to cause precipitation by sprinkling dust particles in the air to condense the moisture are futile, say the Washington experts. It is admitted that small amounts of moisture...