Word: broader
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Broader Schacht facts were that in the past two years Germany has become Hungary's best customer, the greatest exporter to and buyer from Yugoslavia. By Schacht barter deals, Germany is now selling the Balkan countries manufactured goods, possibly at as much as 50% below cash prices in exchange for their raw stuffs. French heavy industry, which used to have Yugoslavia economically in its pocket, is gradually being frozen out. With a Radical Cabinet now ruling France, conservative or reactionary Balkan regimes look increasingly to Berlin...
...bottom of Providence's reservoir, the citizens to this day drink water filtered through his ancestors' bones. But the Harvard Alumni Review made no mistake in its simile. Like a breeze, Angell had in his 53 years moved freely far & wide. His horizon had always been broader than the campus at Burlington, Ann Arbor or Chicago. It has consistently remained broader than the campus at New Haven...
...smothering of city planning is going on rapidly in the country, Washington is doing its full share in spreading the word planning over all creation. What a fine thing it would be to continue the upbuilding of community planning at Harvard. Mr. Hubbard is grand. He is broader than I am. That is no hurt for the head of a college department. Yours very truly, E. M. Bassett
...Conant, in his Tercentenary address, spoke of the necessity of "pruning knowledge", that is throwing out irrevalent material keeping only the essentials, crossing inter-departmental barriers, and getting a broader, general view of the world today. The President has planned new "roving professors", unattached to nay Department, to carry out this pruning. This plan is to be applauded and backed as being one which will tend to counteract the emphasis placed on research and scholarship...
...other beneficial effect, the widening of Plan B will at least prevent this unnecessary diverting of the interest of the really advanced freshmen into purely extra-curricular channels. However, taken in its broader light, one can read the beginning of the end of the fallacious system of entrance examinations and the dawning of a day when the general development of a student at his preparatory school will be accepted as a major factor in determining his fitness for admission. This day will undoubtedly come, and it can be safely forecast that the recent action of the Faculty Council has done...