Word: widespread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British Empire is very wealthy, very populous and very widespread and we respect it," snapped Il Giornale next day, "but Britain owes her vast Empire not only to the enterprise and worth of her citizens but also to violent conquests which often were not very scrupulous." Next, small-fry Italian papers rehashed the predatory exploits of Britons from Sir Francis Drake to Lord Elgin who stole Greece's most valuable marbles and enshrined them in the British Museum...
...long as the N.S.L.'s name didn't appear in an anti-Hearst move the CRIMSON was glad to show its "liberalism" and capitalize on the widespread anti-Hearst feeling. But when the N.S.L. undertook a public meeting exposing Hearst the CRIMSON revealed the sincerity of its opposition to Dirty Willy by refusing even to mention the meeting. Executive Committee Harvard National Student League...
This week's Wednesday review day program at the University is worthy of marked attention, offering two of the year's outstanding films, "The Barretts of Wimpole Street" and Claude Rains' excellent "Crime Without Passion." The merits of both these pictures have received widespread acclaim with almost universal approval from the critical sections of the press...
Patent attorneys are unaware of any widespread false number racket. Anyone can sue the manufacturer who falsifies a patent number. Penalty: $100 and costs, half of which goes to the Government. Much simpler, and far more common, is the practice of applying for a patent and marking the product "Patent Pending," even when the maker has neither hope nor intention of getting a patent...
...drowsy all day long. Dr. Eugene Fagan Traut gave her a thorough examination, could ind nothing wrong with her. Within a fortnight the attack of epidemic encephalitis (sleeping sickness) from which Patricia Maguire suffered put her into a stupor from which she has not yet recovered. Her case attracted widespread newspaper attention. On the anniversary of her first symptoms, on her birthday, at every change in her condition, the Press retold the strange case of Patricia Maguire (TIME, Dec. 17, et ante). Not until last week, however, did her case achieve the dignity of a full-length professional report...