Word: widespread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United States must learn her lesson," he said. He pointed out the widespread movement for the restoration of Czechoslovakia, of which Eduard Benes, former president of the republic who spoke in Boston Wednesday night, is the leader...
...launching of a CRIMSON campaign against the schools comes as the culmination of widespread dissatisfaction with the enlarged role they have played in University life of the past few years...
...bony scales covered with enamel, lobed and limb-like fins, a curious double tail divided by a spinal projection. It is a typical member of the Coelacanths, a primitive fish family which first appeared 300,000,000 years ago when the only land animals were amphibians, and which was widespread and flourishing when the Age of Reptiles was just getting under way. The family has been considered extinct for 50,000,000 years because that is the most recent date assigned to any Coelacanth fossil found in the rocks. Thus the discovery of a live Coelacanth in the world...
Because it is smaller and plainer than the rest of the Houses, Kirkland frequently has been overlooked by the Freshman. Almost more than any other House, it has "House Spirit" exemplified to a great extent in the annual year book and widespread participation in inter-House athletics...
...forced to choose between ignoring the petition and holding the election on the one hand, and having the referendum on the other. The Council was aware of the disadvantages of having a referendum on such short notice. The disadvantage of holding the elections in the face of a widespread--perhaps a majority, for all we knew--oppositions, the Council decided was more serious. On the wisdom of this decision there can be honest disagreement. I do not think its sincerity can honestly be questioned...