Word: broader
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that in your environment you are so accustomed to things being done from a purely selfish motive, that it is difficult for you to comprehend that there are people, who do not belong to the "axe grinder's club" and that in Texas things are done on a broader scale. Perhaps on this account, allowance should be made for your insinuation...
...Scotch, would also certainly help to overcome the reluctance of the dons. If only all of them would consider the few of their number who do dine with college men, and the many happy times so spent, perhaps all of them would find the way to that broader and richer life which every tutor longs for. That would be a happy day indeed for the resident staff of the House, for they would at last be actually giving something in return for their free room and board, the undeserved enjoyment of which has long troubled their tender consciences...
...matter then," said Mayor O'Brien who declined to rescind his ban on German Day. "has a broader aspect, and more serious, since there seems to be a secret invasion of the country...
...ignorant of the inactivity of your committee. . . . Your committee has kept your investigator in Washington, permitting him to do nothing ... has frittered away its scant appropriation . . . has attempted to discredit the record by representing that your authority is limited under the resolution. That resolution is immeasurably broader than the resolution which made a record that threw Vare and Lorimer out of the Senate. . . . Speaking of contempt, Senator, why do you refuse to proceed against Long's henchman, Seymour Weiss, treasurer of the Long racketeering machine, who as a witness treated your committee to all the insults and contemptuousness that...
...will more often eat with non-residents, if, as suggested below, given the use of the House libraries and incorporated into House athletic teams, will come to know more members, who will invite them to meals as paying "guests." In this way the non-resident will have a much broader undergraduate life; and his presence in the dining hall as a guest would prevent his being considered a foreign element, detrimental to any House unity, imaginary or real...