Word: widespread
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...face of this widespread desire for peace, De Valera and his young enthusiasts are carrying on a general policy of guerilla warfare and terrorism. No fewer than three hundred and thirty postoffices have recently been broken into and robbed, while the killings have averaged some five or ten a day. Our American crime waves pale before such a display...
...campaign launched today in London is the result of the exposure of what is fast becoming a widespread abuse in England,--the selling of American college degrees. Advertisements, carefully worded, have been appearing in London papers of the best type; and agents of so-called American universities,--the most notorious centering about Washington and Chicago,--have been hawking degrees under various ingenious pretenses...
...would not be serious if such degrees were always sure hall-marks of a man's scholastic training and ability; but the more wide-spread the idea becomes that no man of science or letters is intellectually respectable unless stamped with some kind of badge or diploma, the more widespread will be the attendant corruption...
...Burns was born in Baltimore in 1861 and was brought up to be a tailor. But he grew interested in the detection of crime, and when he solved the celebrated "tally-sheet forgeries" in a State election, his fame become widespread...
...more the duty of decent citizens to try to make an improvement in the government of their country, and stupid because the slightest investigation will show any intelligent man that the widespread stories of American political dishonesty are almost always without foundation. In those cases where corruption and bribery have been clearly demonstrated, it has invariably been discovered that a group of the most successful business men of the community have combined to achieve the election or appointment of a corrupt man to a comparatively small position for their private profit. It is my firm conviction that except for certain...