Word: wide
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wide Distribution...
Sturges pointed out that although Yale's 540 total enrollment is smaller than Harvard's first year class, the geographical distribution is just as wide...
...Just as the people who believe he aid is non-political fail to see the political factor in the situation, the people who think in terms of the immediate politics of the case fail to perceive the higher level of policy. They fail to see not only the world-wide implications of aid to Tito, but also the pastern of foreign policy which it fits altogether too well. They pay too much attention to the trees...
...last week, the flood had reached Manhattan. From 60 loudspeakers spotted throughout the wide halls and rabbit warrens of Grand Central Terminal, commuters were pursued by the Blue Danube and the persuasive commercial. F. LeMoyne Page, president of Terminal Broadcasting, Inc., promised to "permeate the whole place" with music broken every 2½ minutes by commercial spot-announcements. "Right now," said Page, '"we're experimenting with the difference in volume caused by the number of people. Ideally, we'd like to develop a 'thermostatic-type' control that would set the volume to the changing volume...
Supremely confident ("I think I will bust TV wide open"), Wynn was onstage all but five minutes of the half-hour show, grimacing in a succession of funny hats, outlandish garments and size 13 shoes. The fluttery mannerisms, Rube Goldberg inventions and falsetto giggles were the Wynn trademarks made popular by a long succession of musical comedies (Ziegfeld Follies of 1914 and 1915, The Perfect Fool, Hooray for What...