Word: broader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Personally, I think the stage presents a much broader field than the motion pictures. I can do more with it, and the fact that I am not talking for nothing encourages me in my work. There is room for expressing oneself by means of the mouth and one need not be limited to expression by action...
...secure an A.M. before entering the professional schools. Naturally such a course of study would appeal most, as well as olier the greatest value to those intending to become instructors. But as long as universities insist upon the Ph.D., as the indispensable credential for membership in their faculties, the broader curriculum suggested by Mr. Griffin will have no place in the teacher's preparation...
...What is seriously harmful will pass out of itself as did the excessive license of the Restoration drama and as will the James Joyces and Ben Hechts in the upper literary strata. As the worst passes it will leave a literature for the masses which has a truer, broader interpretation of life...
Last week Dr. Hrdlicka published the fruits of a long study of "Old American" faces. He had steered clear of inhabitants of the "inbred" New England and South Atlantic states and, since 1910, collected data on individuals descended from three and four generations of people that had lived in broader, but still wholly American, environments. Such people, "of well-determined, all-American ancestry," were much fewer than might have been supposed. But his studies extended to over 1,500 adults of both sexes, 937 being examined in detail...
...played the same trick on biography and autobiography. Those who find the lives of distinguished or notorious persons the best reading in the world will be stimulated. Occasionally his vocabulary is too technical for the average reader, but most of the time the doctor uses the language of a broader culture, relieved by sudden reversions to modern slang...