Word: wide
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...less than 55% of the votes, said Spaak, the institution of the monarchy itself could be endangered. "The King would render the country an immense service," added Spaak, "if he agreed to abdicate. If this sacrifice is above his strength, the King could say he would return only with wide popular support . . . at least two-thirds of the whole country...
Harvard makes its six-week contribution to the world wide Goethe Bicentennial beginning tonight with a lecture by Stuart P. Atkins, assistant professor of German Literature, on "Goethe and World Literature" at 8 p.m. in the Fogg Large Room...
...been helping Massachusetts police solve crimes through medical investigation. Simultaneously it has been pioneering the spread of skilled legal medicine as a replacement for the "layman coroner" system which still prevails in 41 states. It therefore is understandable that Med School officials were enthusiastic at the prospect of nation-wide publicity when two MGM investigators last year proposed a movie on the Legal Medicine Department...
Part of the crowd waited while the two lunched and then responded to their emergence by some polite applause, without so much as a Regular Cheer for the Pandit. As rubbernecks goggled, Nehru visited Lamont and Houghton Libraries. In the Lamont reading room he asked, wide-eyed, "And can the students borrow these books?"--followed by some uneasy moments while University officialdom tried to recall the right answer...
...group of Cambridge educational, religious, and civic leaders are sponsoring the meeting in response to an officially-proclaimed, state-wide "Civil Rights Week...