Word: broader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hornbeck said that "the Chinese state has been faced during the past century with problems absolutely new to it, and since 1911 has been trying to do something which it never tried to do before. The nationalist movement is a broader thing than the Nationalist Party, the Nationalist Government, or the Nationalist Army; the Nationalist movement is a nation-wide, though not yet nation-deep awakening; it is a movement away from the old and toward something new, toward hope, toward light, in politics, in economics, in social and religious activities, in the realm of arts and letters...
...three "medical" observations, and so on. Nor do all these facts and thoughts stick out like a sore thumb in the book, as they do here. Far from that, they form part of the fabric of the text, and all contribute to give the reader a clearer and broader view of the place that he and his body, and all "living machinery" hold in the scheme of things...
...feeble kind of way so far as this country is concerned of exchanging professorships or lectureships. This is all in the right direction, not only from the standpoint of making things more pleasant for the pupil but also because by this means he is enabled to obtain a broader outlook upon his subject...
...Marines last week aroused criticism. Why had adequate reinforcements not been kept ready somewhere near Nicaragua? Of the 1,400 men embarking, 500 were at San Diego, Calif.; the rest had to be collected from Charleston, S. C., Hampton Roads, Va., Philadelphia and even Brooklyn. Congressmen agitated the broader question of whether or not "war" existed and was justified in Nicaragua. Defenders of the Administration sidetracked embarrassing resolutions (see THE CONGRESS). But Congress could not silence embarrassing remarks by citizens such as one Harold Leavey of Brooklyn, N. Y., father of one of the embarking Marines. Said Mr. Leavey...
...favorable impression thus derived was not dispeleld by the mysterious words "Hoosic-Whisick" appearing on the cover. They are strongly suggestive of the invigorating medium "college spirit," not indeed in any narrow sense--Yale too appreciates their worth!--but in its broader and more fluid aspect...