Word: width
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ascent into heaven through the refining fires of purgatory, has been widely considered the greatest poem ever composed; and its author has been virtually deified by the critics. T. S. Eliot pronounced him "the most universal of poets in the modern languages," and added: "Shakespeare gives the greatest width of human passion; Dante the greatest altitude and greatest depth. They divide the modern world between them; there is no third...
There have also been width problems. Harvard tried to buy the adjacent land for $100,000; but the owner, a college teacher and former Harvard M.A., refused to sell unless Harvard gave him an honorary Ph.D. "The owner," Babcock said, "refused to leave his house as long as the tree in front of it stood that tree. But the University may get the property soon. The tree died last summer...
Perhaps the most forbiddingly difficult of DeBakey's aneurysm cases involved a man of 38 with a dissecting aneurysm that began in the chest cavity above the diaphragm and had not only grown in width but had also extended downward through the diaphragm, making a wide split where there is normally a tight fit. Worse still, the splitting of the arterial walls extended into parts of four branch arteries-the two renals, supplying both kidneys; the mesenteric, supplying much of the intestines; and the celiac, supplying the stomach, liver and spleen. Using a graft with six connections, Dr. DeBakey...
...Stab in the Back." Minister of Lands Charles Percival de Silva, 52, who had helped found the Freedom Party, protested the admission of the Trotskyites, but reported that Mrs. Bandaranaike assured him "she wouldn't change the policies of her husband by so much as the width of the stamen of a mustard flower." When the Trotskyite support was followed by that of the pro-Moscow Communist Party, De Silva had enough. With 13 other Freedom rebels, he bolted to the opposition, causing the government to fall last month by only a single vote...
...projected building would permit the School to expand its student body, chiefly through better teaching methods. "It's more an expansion in depth than in width," Sert said...