Word: widespread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rising liquor sales indicated that Christmas parties were widespread last night. Most merrymakers were unaware that today will be the last day of school in the half-century...
...Rape of the Land. This deep feeling for the soil is shared by many Italian landowners who work their land themselves, or treat their tenants as fellow owners. But under Italy's widespread system of absentee ownership, too many masters of the land rent it out for a fixed fee to subcontractors; they in turn rent it out to tenants who must make them a profit...
Speaking under the auspices of the Free Enterprise Society. Kaltenborn wrote off the loss of China as "inevitable" because of widespread corruption in the Chinese army. He remarked that China is too vast and unorganized to be of great use to Russia...
...this tendency becomes more widespread, Berlin argues, there will be "a rapid end to all the liberal arts and sciences. In such a world A is busily engaged in helping B to train C to help A-to help him toward what goal? Only to make him more useful to B and C; useful in what respect? To make A, B, and C in general more helpful to one another; helpful in doing and being what? This remains unanswered...
...would welcome suggestions on how to solve the "food problem." Last year Dean Bender asked the Student Council to conduct a poll on what students thought of the food. Throughout this 300 year history of food problems many changes in the dining system occurred, always whenever protests became widespread and proved to be well founded...