Word: wide
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wide & Woolly Sir: Last year you ran an item on the American Museum of Natural History's experiment in forecasting the severity of winter by noting the number of rings a caterpillar had. The Forecast was for a mild winter...
...fall, woollybear caterpillars have a brown band in their midriffs. If the brown band is wide, a mild winter is indicated; if the band is narrow, it will be a hard winter [TIME, Nov. 8, 1948]. This year's bands, according to the museum's naturalists, are wide...
...generals permitted the prosecution wide latitude. Much testimony was based on opinion and hearsay, two or three times removed. The prosecution showed a U.S. -propaganda film, Orders from Tokyo, in which a G.I. pulled a piece of paper from the pocket of a slain Japanese soldier, while the soundtrack intoned: "Orders from Tokyo. We have discovered the secret orders to destroy Manila." In fact, no such orders were ever found, as the defense demonstrated...
...bridge will have three arches: two 78 feet wide and 15 feet high and a central one 100 feet wide and 17 feet high--the widest span on the Charles. Athletic Director William J. Bingham '16 was consulted; the MDC doesn't want to interfere with the activities of Harvard crews. Both approaches will be continuous-flow rotaries; the MDC doesn't want another such two-headed bottle-neck as the Lars Anderson Bridge. The contract for the rotaries and for the new road on the north shore of the river will be let in July, and the work will...
...Sage of he Age crawled from his straw pallet and struggled towards the Sanctum door as he had for the last 200 years. He rubbed the opiate ashes from his left eyelid, which he opened wide enough to perceive the Canton Trust Company calender dangling on a nail above the door...