Word: widest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this Church hold the position of those who are popularly described as Fundamentalists. We believe in the widest freedom of inquiry and of scholarly research. We welcome eagerly all the light that science and scholarship can give. We believe fully in applying modern knowledge to religion, but we insist that the power of God, and His revelation of Himself, shall not be limited by the measure of our human reason, or of our necessarily partial knowledge of the physical order...
...Irene Castle Treman: "Eighty-two residents of Fort Worth, Tex., signed a petition to have the name of Fort Worth's widest street changed from ' Vernon Castle Boulevard' back to ' Boulevard,' its original name. My former husband was killed at Fort Worth in an airplane crash February...
What will be the six or the ten best sellers for the coming year? Nobody knows and everyone seems to care. Only two seem almost certain of the widest popularity?The Mine with the Iron Door (Harold Bell Wright) and The White Flag (Eleanor H. Porter). Both authors sell by the carload rather than the volume; their publishers are always sittin' pretty financially. And then there is The Bover by Joseph Conrad, now running serially in the Pictorial Eeview, to be published probably this Winter?and Charles G. Norris, addicted to monosyllabic titles, will produce this month a little thing...
...doors periodicals. The Mississippi Bubble made his first real success in the literary field?other books include The Story of the Cowboy, (praised by Theodore Roosevelt), The Man Next Door, The Girl at the Halfway House and The Covered Wagon, which, in its movie incarnation, gave him, perhaps, his widest audience...
...helping the wounded veterans by voluntary contributions. So far the government has done very little for the disabled soldiers besides paying their insurance; it may not be able to do much effectively for some time to come. The campaign starting today is for that reason one which deserves the widest support. It is welcome as an opportunity for showing the veterans in question that though we may oppose the bonus, our appreciation of their sacrifices is deep and abiding...