Word: wide
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last wide military use of shrapnel against troops was not in the Boer War, 1899-1902, as many Canadian soldiers could testify who came under extensive and persistent shrapnel shelling at Ypres, 1915, 1916, 1917; on the Somme, 1916; at Vimy and in front of Lens, 1916, 1917; before Arras 1917, 1918; before Amiens, 1918; at Valenciennes and Mons...
Last week he spoke as guest of honor before the Canadian Club and the Empire Club of Canada. Wide he opened his mouth, and firmly he put his foot in it. Said he, referring to his fellow U. S. citizens : "To me, it is only too apparent that the life, the liberty, the livelihood and the very safety of this same neutral citizen may be dependent upon the outcome of the present war." The outcome Minister Cromwell hoped for, he made clear, was the victory of the Allies. Picturing himself as a sentry who "sees approaching a force which frankly...
...primary, will then & there settle the political hash of GOPresumptives Arthur Vandenberg or Thomas E. Dewey. Senator La Follette last week had become "Good Old Bob," a man whom many new friends were trying to influence. Representing a rock-bottom (1938) legion of 353,000 Progressive voters in a wide-open primary, his nod might mean the difference between success & failure to hundreds of big & little shots...
...seven Hurley law partners spends his time answering (encouragingly) letter-writers who think the Republicans this year need more color and less pussyfooting; 2) at least one State's Republican boss had already offered his delegation to Hurley; 3) Hurley biography brochures were getting wide distribution...
...sponsors of the contest, the Mohawk Club of Cambridge, say they want "nothing but Harvard men" as judges, "because Harvard men have a nation-wide reputation in things of this sort...