Word: widespread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rhine evidence for extrasensory perception was greeted with widespread skepticism and objections in academic psychological circles. One effect, however, was to start experimenters elsewhere to work trying to duplicate or disprove the Rhine results. It was to accommodate reports of this growing body of research that the Journal of Parapsychology was set on foot...
...conditions are cited which are indispensable to any movement seeking a violent break from established ways; 1) empty stomachs and 2) widespread despair of filling those stomachs by the established ways. "Consideration of the relation of President Roosevelt's proposal to the future of personal liberty must include consideration of the relation of his larger purposes to the avoidance's of those two conditions...
Pressing need for better and cheaper food has set in motion widespread agitation, declared Drexel Sprecher 2L, chairman of the group. An efficient organization to make the issues known to the law faculty and to the controlling board of the University is necessary at this time, he stated...
...first the plan may have only a local effect, as it becomes more publicized, its influence may well spread not only to other universities but to the educational system as a whole. The informality and the universal appeal to an organized but non-compulsory form of education should prove widespread...
...P.B.H. law organization include the arranging for Langdell lecturers during the year, the management of a loan library of 500 books, and, recently, the promotion of a plan for better athletic facilities for the graduate student. While nothing has yet been done officially about this move there has been widespread interest among the students in the Law School...