Word: widest
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...bridge will have three arches: two 78 feet wide and 15 feet high and a central one 100 feet wide and 17 feet high--the widest span on the Charles. Athletic Director William J. Bingham '16 was consulted; the MDC doesn't want to interfere with the activities of Harvard crews. Both approaches will be continuous-flow rotaries; the MDC doesn't want another such two-headed bottle-neck as the Lars Anderson Bridge. The contract for the rotaries and for the new road on the north shore of the river will be let in July, and the work will...
...widest range the "talking drums" can cover is 10 or 15 miles, less than a quarter of the present unrelayed TV transmission range. Language differences bar relay coast-to-coast hookups. Most drums can send only cut & dried messages, like those which Western Union puts out for unimaginative U.S. customers. The drum service is usually person-to-person, and each member of the tribe has his drumbeat code name, e.g.: "Even if you dress up finely, love is the only thing," or, "Don't go where the lucky fellows are taking women along lest you get into trouble...
...easiest, surest and most varied ever set to paper. Cervantes did not use his poetic gifts as directly as Shakespeare did, yet in a lifelong struggle to shake his talents loose, he found a loving patience and a kind irony that made him at last the deepest, widest humorist who ever wrote...
...19th Century attributes of probity, confidence and dignity?which seem to be taking on a new luster as the undignified 20th Century reaches its halfway point. He does not court public adulation. Besides, Canadians had given him the salute that counts in last June's general election: the widest mandate ever handed to a national leader (TIME, July 4). When the Canadian Parliament opens next week, St. Laurent's Liberal Party will hold a record total of 187 out of 262 seats...
...aureomycin was better than any other antibiotic for treating undulant fever (brucellosis), and that it produced good results against streptococcic and staphylococcic infections, scarlet fever, and a type of pneumonia that doctors sometimes call "primary atypical," sometimes "virus." The British medical journal Lancet has reported that aureomycin "has the widest range of activity of any known antibacterial substance...