Word: broadening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four U.S. Senators came back to Washington last week after a 41,000-mile junket across five continents and around the fringes of World War II. The four gave new emphasis to the old saying that there is nothing like travel to broaden the mind...
...includes Albert Einstein. Its 28 students do post-postgraduate research, have freely elected their teachers and studies. They are so expert in their fields that they are presumably aware of all the known facts involved. All that the Institute's teachers hope to do is to broaden and deepen their students' points of view toward their subjects by joint approaches from new angles. The students hear few formal lectures, take no examinations, get no degrees...
Says Okuda: "I have met people who not only were interested but were going so far out of their way to help others that I felt small and cheap. Such contacts cannot but broaden one's perspective...
...Army's capture of Rzhev last week freed the 160-mile railway between Velikie Luki and Moscow. Soviet engineers immediately began to broaden the gauge to the Russian size. For the Germans this "axle war" had involved moving the wheels of captured rolling stock slightly toward the center of the axle. The Russians are now having to return the wheels to the ends of the axle...
...plan to broaden the activities to meet the new needs finds the Association prepared with a completed athletic program as well as plans for a speakers series featuring outstanding men on the School faculty...