Word: widespread
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Widespread crime, he said, is due to the transformation that contemporary civilization is undergoing, and the solution of the problem seems to lie in the closer study of social pathology...
...sympathy of a large majority of his hitherto moving-picture-going public. Better plays have been written than Eugene O'Neil's Pulitzer Prize Play, but it is hardly surprising that such unreasonable and bigoted pseudo-puritanism on the part of Boston authorities should be met by widespread resentment, manifested not only by indignant letters and editorials in the press, but by such practical offers as Mr. Hat-field...
Protests against the barring of the "Strange Interlude" in Boston, where it was supposed to be produced beginning September 30 in the Hollis Theatre, have been numerous and widespread. Offers from theatre managers within the reach of the metropolitan district have been made to the Theatre Guild but none possesses so many evident advantages as the University Theatre in Cambridge. It has a slightly larger capacity than the Hollis Theatre and is within easy reach of downtown Boston...
From time to time there are short reviews printed in a feature column of the CRIMSON editorial, page under the title of Bookends. For the average student whose limited time precludes a widespread reading of modern poetry and prose these reviews are of great value in the selection of worthwhile literature...
...hours by a potent pronouncement from Engineer Hoover. The President promised the Prime Minister a warm welcome in October, then seconded the British gesture by announcing that the U. S. would postpone construction of three cruisers (see p. 12). Throughout Britain these quick-stepping developments met with such widespread enthusiasm that even the Conservative Daily Telegraph observed: "All parties must hope that Mr. MacDonald's optimism is justified and wish him well in his further negotiations." Key points in the MacDonald speech: Parity: The Prime Minister said that he and General Dawes "have agreed upon the principle of parity...