Word: widespread
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That the disastrous Worcester fire yesterday was incendiary in origin is the suspicion of many officials who are investigating the stricken area. If evidence is forthcoming to prove that such is the case, a serious problem is at once presented. So widespread is the district affected that whether the responsibility lies in a deliberate plot on the part of "reds," or of a gang of fanatical firebugs, the matter calls for the fullest examination...
There exists in this country today a widespread conspiracy against relaxation. A man goes it as hard as he can in his office, and then rushes away and hits it up like a maniac on the golf course, or plays tennis or squash, or handball, or medicine ball until he boils in every pore. . . . Nobody want to relax; nobody wants to ruminate, or drowse, or dream. We cultivate business on the golf course, solicit orders on furious motor drives on State highways, and go through violent motions in the unspeakable gymnasium because we don't know how to sit. . . . Unless...
...tide seems to be turning at last. Out of the chaos in Russia there is one group of men who have the power to gather together the stray ends of opposition, to unify the disorganized but widespread resistance to the Soviets. This is the Constituent Assembly, duty elected by universal suffrage to represent all-Russia and dissolved three years ago by the Bolsheviki when they set up by force their military regime. Former Premier Kerensky has issued a manifesto calling a hundred members to a conference in Paris "to devise ways and means for the defense of the honor...
...employers this sum might be sufficient, but unless the Federation changes its beliefs it is likely that public opinion will be lined up with its opponents; and no amount of money can change that. Mr. Bohm, who is the secretary of the Central Federated Union, sees in the widespread unemployment the direct result of a conspiracy to force labor to take what work and wages it can get. "I am not a prophet," he says, "so I cannot say what the end will be. . . Take the cloth and hat and cap makers, for instance. This is usually the busiest time...
...Babson maintained that as all these reasons are well-founded there is no cause for the widespread feeling of pessimism in the United States and urged everyone to do what he could to rectify the false impressions about the outlook in the business world...