Word: widespread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the Civil War the migration of ambitious Northerners to the South was sufficiently widespread and significant to win the careful attention of historians and sociologists. The reciprocal movement of Southerners to the North has been a subject for novelists, since it took place slowly and unobtrusively and since it involved the transplanting of people who were still tied emotionally to the regions they had lost. Last week the uprooting of one Southern family formed the subject of a brooding, sympathetic novel by a young Virginian whose seriousness of purpose had not been revealed in his earlier books. Born...
...first Pasteur treatment was given almost 50 years ago. . . . The failure of victims to avail themselves of this formidable weapon . . . can be attributed largely to ignorance, carelessness, indifference and the widespread dissemination of such advice as that found in Mr. Terhune's article...
...midst of the widespread debate as to precisely what Nominee Landon meant, Mr. Thomas wrote him as follows...
...fair summary of the situation seems to be this: Neither political group has any real interest in the Civil Service. The spoils system has been more widespread under this administration than previously because the establishment is larger. Only if they could be promised a half-and-half division of the jobs would the managing politicians be willing to classify all except the top layer of Federal job holders...
...Board and the Administration are still committed to an easy money policy. Easy money means cheap financing, government as well as corporate. And a $1,900,000,000 cushion of excess reserves guarantees low interest rates and high bond prices for some time to come. Nevertheless, to squash any widespread notion that it was deliberately moving for tighter money, the Board took pains to state that its move was an anti-inflationary step offering "further encouragement to sound business recovery and confidence in the long-term investment market...