Word: widespread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Demanding that each student in the University be required to take a compulsory Wasserman test, a group of Medical School reformers announced today the opening of a widespread antisyphilis campaign...
...ones, "if new jobs are to be provided, the national income must be increased." National income will not rise without Business confidence, and on this paramount point Mr. Hopkins made an admission never before heard so frankly from a New Dealer. Said he: "Among many businessmen there exists a widespread lack of confidence . . . a hard, stubborn fact...
After the World War many a disillusioned U. S. citizen-soldier swore that the Government would have to drag him off the dock at Hoboken to make him go to another European war. In Britain much the same attitude developed. Widespread was the feeling that in another Anglo-French war against Germany and her allies, Britain should furnish a fleet, money and materials while France supplied the army...
...wonder if you realized the widespread implications of your editorial of February 27 concerning the latent dangers to our cultural growth resulting from the increased use of that "newfangled" idea: the electric razor. Your stand represents the eternal stand of the narrow-minded reactionary...
...that this new invention was nothing but a curse, an evil contrived by the devil himself. They feared that the cows would give sour milk, that the hens would either not lay or else lay hard-boiled eggs. The same attitude prevailed when street-cars and trolleys came into widespread...