Word: widths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they left Canada's width and plenty? There were almost as many reasons as there were returning brides, but atop the list were 1) too few houses, and 2) too many in-laws. Mrs. Margaret Bann, 26, tried three months in Saskatchewan, quit it and her husband because "the home he said was waiting for me turned out to be a one-room shack." Some complained of drinking or faithless husbands, and of in-laws who did not like children...
...brief digression on the nature of the New Haven trolley is first necessary. Open on both sides, the cars have seats extending across their full width from one side to the other. There being no center aisle, each passenger steps from the street into his seat, as in a European railroad coach...
...refuses to use a compass because it points north, can now take his constitutional in the deepest woods. General Electric has a new compass which points east and west. The needle is made of silmanal-a new alloy of silver, manganese and aluminum-which can be magnetized across its width instead of lengthwise, as standard compass needles must...
...this makes the opposite page look reassuring. Toss in another column in width, a few more inches in length, more frequent publication, United Press service, and the rest, but the editorial page makes the big difference between the Service News and the CRIMSON...
...Meadow. Perhaps a million (or so New York police estimated) had gathered in Central Park to hear the President. They stretched almost across the width of the park. But they were not stirred by the speech. The President said little he had not said before. As usual, he sounded as if he were reciting from a copybook, not too well-written. But this time the copybook had a new and very impressive binding. Against the background of the seapower in the Hudson and the airpower over Manhattan's skyscrapers, he restated U.S. foreign policy...