Word: widespread
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...seen fit to take from private hands as a purely emergency measure, should be returned to their owners with due compensation. But in the case of various public service monopolies which are now operated by the government as a means of insuring perfect coordination in the management of a widespread system the question of restoration calls for somewhat more deliberation...
...furnished by the Publishers' Weekly. They are shown strikingly in an increase from 1916 of 244 books devoted to military and naval science. Great Britain produced in 1917 a book total of 8,131 volumes, against 9,149 in 1916. The issue of 782 pamphlets last year suggests a widespread tendency to express the British mind in print. --New York...
...encouragement for students to attain perfection, or, at least, to do their utmost, the memorial will be of value to humanity. That the memory of a life spent in seeking excellence should be kept alive by an incentive to develop the same trait in other men must bring widespread approval. Just as in studies or in outside activities, Meeker sought to act on noblest principles, so finally he sacrificed himself, following that path his conscience pointed out. To honor one who did his best even though it led to the grave this scholarship is established...
...sensibly directed, degenerates into narrow-mindedness. That seems to be the fault of the North Dakota State Board of Education, which has resolved to discontinue the teaching of German in public schools. Although there has been a tendency to bring this about in some Eastern cities, yet no such widespread decision was made. Now we hear from the West that a whole state has determined to substitute the study of French and Spanish for that of German. For no other reason than our present state of war, the school board of North Dakota has decided to keep people from learning...
...American colleges have lost a large percentage of its students. upon whom they depend for much of their income. These three cases show the burden which is upon all colleges. So long as the war continues this tendency, accentuated by further reductions in enrolments, is due to become more widespread and disturbing...