Word: wide
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...completed tunnel consists of two tubes, each high enough for a trailer truck and two lanes wide. Pavements are concrete and are flanked on each side by emergency walks...
...Tiger two-platoon squad employs a straight single wing offense, concentrating its ground attack on delayed hand-offs through tackle, and wide end sweeps. There is less spinning and faking than in the Valpey-styled single wing, but Princeton has the personnel to run off power plays and enough tricks to keep the opposition baffled...
...many scientists still accept "rather sterile concepts," Dr. Hueper said. Among them he listed the theories that cancer gets started by chronic irritation and that it is the product of heredity. Both, he said, are supported by evidence of "doubtful value," and both may cause researchers to ignore a wide field of potentially valuable research in preventing the disease. Dr. Hueper's main point: almost every known cancer-producing agent can be traced to environment, particularly certain processes of modern industries...
...world begin to find out what he was pursuing. In ten years of agony, bliss and hard labor, he had poured out some 900 drawings and 800 paintings, written hundreds of letters. Self-expression was all he cared about, and the self he expressed was so affectionate, violent and wide open to the world around him that the circle of his admirers has broadened with each generation...
...course, is France's multi-party system--Queuille's Cabinet alone had representatives of eight different political parties. Since the Communists and the anti-government extremists on the Right control nearly half of the seats in the Assembly, a coalition of moderates requires the cooperation of members with wide differences of political sympathy, a range that in U.S. politics would extend from left-wing New Dealers to Senator Taft. There is no majority party, and for two years, the Communists, who have a plurality, have not been represented in the Cabinet. To add to the difficulties, the three parties...