Word: broadening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...October, 1938, the faculty will devote itself to laying groundwork in curriculum and methods with the assistance of the government officials, as well as with the help of promising younger men already in public service who will take leave of absence to afford assistance and at the same time broaden their own training. Young men of this type will always provide a nucleus in the student body, it is planned, and a number of "in-service" fellowships will be provided each year to enable these men to attend the school...
...Patiently diagramming educational statistics which the fidgeting regents did not want to hear, he defended his decade's record at Wisconsin, cited higher enrollments, higher average graduate accomplishments in the professions. His newspaper writing, said Glenn Frank, occupied only three hours a week and forced him to broaden his reading: speaking outside the State, once a month on the average, brought invaluable contacts among alumni, industrial and educational leaders, which any university president required. "I planned this program as a definite part of my duty as president." declared...
...jeweled watches are often called clocks, always counted as clocks. The jeweled watch is an industry by itself.* Development of GTI's new low-priced watch was in line with the company's aim to blanket the clock field. Last year it bought Stromberg Electric to broaden its list of devices like time stamps, job recorders, in-&-out recorders...
...potent Committee on the State of the Church rejected a proposal to broaden the grounds on which Methodist ministers may remarry divorced persons; turned down a "fanatical"' suggestion that "cup" be substituted for "wine"' in the wording of the communion service ritual; sent to the general conference an opinion that unofficial groups like the radical Methodist Federation for Social Service may continue to call themselves Methodist provided they emphasize their unofficial status...
...Crimson wishes Mother Advocate a successful year, but especially that she broaden the scope and variety of her contributors, and thus make herself the true patroness of Harvard undergraduate expression...