Word: broader
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...giving the youth of England and America an opportunity for better mutual understanding, Rhodes hoped to cement the bonds between the two countries. Inasmuch as the present type of Rhodes Scholar is often too immature or one-sided, a broader type of man, more capable of truly representing the American nation, should be chosen; and in the present-day world, this is particularly important. Intelligent cooperation among the democracies of the world is essential to world peace, and such cooperation will never be possible while it remains in the realm of academic theorizing. Men of practical ability, willing to play...
...Please make it plain that this is not only an Oriental show. It is something broader than that - a Pacific Basin show...
Paris' exhibition of L'Art Cruel (TIME, Jan. 24) had not long closed its doors on a willing world before there opened last fortnight in a small, select Galerie Beaux-Arts an exhibition with a broader appeal. This was the first international show of Surrealism (superrealism) ever held in the city where that movement was born.* Critics who have been forgetting about this weird school's pristine vigors were reminded of them forcibly when the opening night turned into a near riot, with 2,000 chittering Frenchmen milling around the gates and a troop of police...
From this point on, the tradition becomes broader and the showing more ample. We can pursue it, in a second room, in several fine Ingres, in a Delacroix and a Gericault and a whole sheaf by Degas; we discover it, still potent, in four cartoons of pure line, by Picasso. Certainly in those two rooms we contemplate a wondrous diversity of the human spirit, conveyed by the mere line and surface of drawings...
...consideration of these modern complexities "it is possible to predict a broader role for medicine in the university than is involved in the care of acute infections and other physical disorders," Dr. Bock said...