Word: widespread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...destruction by brimstone of the 20th Century-Fox studios. Life in the native Indian state of Ranchipur is going on placidly until the rains come. Then a San Francisco earthquake breaks the dam at the most inopportune moment, inundating Ranchipur in a flood more terrible, if less widespread, than that of The Green Pastures. A plague of Yellow Jack virulence breaks out, inducing the Ranchipur authorities to start a fire that burns as brightly as did the conflagration in In Old Chicago. Most cinemaddicts will wonder why, having carried this chain of horror so far, Producer Zanuck failed to find...
...striving to patch up their Front reflected that they had lost ground during previous alterations of their "line," had always regained it. One who cynically conceded that all might not be lost to them was the Baltimore Stin's Henry Mencken, who was disillusioned long ago. Noting the widespread pain of the pinks, he opined: "The will to believe is not cured by a single sellout, nor even by a dozen on end. It is a chronic affliction, and as intractable as gout, the liquor habit, or following the horses. The American pinks have had it for a long...
...heels of widespread student protest against the dismissal in 1937 of two young Economics instructors, Alan R. Sweezy '29 and J. Raymond Walsh, the Council recommended that student committees be formed in each department to consult with Faculty members of that department on proposed appointments and dismissals...
Like 100 of his Parliamentary colleagues, Lord Balniel went to Eton. Like 180 of the 415 Tory M.P.s, he is a director of a corporation. He is younger than the average Tory in the House (50), but he is like the majority in his widespread family connections: on Government benches, in the House of Lords, in the Cabinet, he has cousins, in-laws, distant relatives, as have the Scotts, Stanleys, Cavendishes and the Guests who can count 77 past and present M.P.s related by blood or marriage...
Correspondents were at a loss to know why the Italians, just at the height of the tourist season, had deprived themselves of badly needed foreign exchange. The Italian explanations were not much help. First, it was announced that foreigners were ordered out because of widespread "espionage" in the South Tyrol. Next, they had to go for "military" reasons...