Word: widely
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Passed a Senate resolution extending U. S. sovereignty to Swain's Island, about 200 miles northeast of American Samoa. The island is owned by an U. S. citizen, Alexander Jennings, is a mile wide and a mile and a half long, has about 70 inhabitants including 40 children. (Went to the President.) ¶ Adopted a Senate resolution providing for the completion of the historic frieze in the rotunda of the Capitol. (Went to the President.) ¶ Adopted a Senate resolution providing that donations "of the best specimens of early American furniture and furnishings" be accepted...
...mystery, the slow roots thrusting through the dark of the mind to flower in beauty?she reveals with psychology for her spade. By this method, she puts the whole of Endymion through psychological reconstruction; explains why the Ode to a Grecian Urn is a "flawless example of clear, unvexed, wide-eyed beauty"; the Ode to a Nightingale "a no less perfect presentation of absolute magic"; why "Keats' whole soul was in The Eve of St. Agnes"; Hyperion she scores as "a failure"; praises the little-famed Meg Merrilies...
After that he tried to come back, failed, settled down to the life of a gentleman and memories. His gentility has become recognized far and wide, his memories have taken shape in his mind, he has written* a book†. Like John Keats, he was a livery-stable keeper's son. His father intended him for the priesthood, but he crossed himself and went out to lick the boys. His first fight was with Joe Choinyski, whom he calls "one of the gamest and best fighters that ever lived"-a slugging match on a raft in San Francisco...
This steady and very great expansion has resulted from manufacturing and selling efficiency and world-wide advertising, rather than from patent protection. One advantage in this business is that every owner of a Gillette razor becomes a steady customer for Gillette blades...
Asked what has been learned concerning the nature of the shock last night, Professor Daly replied that nothing definite has yet been determined. "The quake was extraordinary," he declared, "both for its strength and the wide area of disturbance. The center seems to have been about 100 miles distant from Boston either to the cast or west." Professor J. B. Woodworth, the University seismologist, is absent on sabbatical leave in Florida and hence cannot read the record of the seismograph. The cylinder has therefore been shellacked, and will be sent to Washington for study...