Word: widens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twelve years ago, three days before the intercollegiate track meet it was decided to widen the track so that five men could run in the 220-yard hurdles at the same time. As the track was large enough for only four men, a new strip had to be added before the meet. This was done under the supervision of Dennis Enwright, who was also in charge of this year's work. So expertly was the work done that the hurdler running on the new piece won the race...
...ideas for the administration of international affairs. President Pritchett, of the Carnegie Foundation, feels it unlikely that the award will produce any feasible recommendation other than a recommendation for some sort of " international association for common education." President Faunce, of Brown, thinks the studying done for the award will widen the American horizon, as does Chancellor Emeritus Jordan, of Leland Stanford. President Hopkins, of Dartmouth, believes the award may prove "the most helpful stimulus yet proposed for making articulate the desire of the American people for such increased spirit of neighborliness among the peoples of the world as will most...
...please the diplomats by attempting to free the foreign captives. Each had a different plan. The result was that the Cabinet split. Even the brusque message from Jacob Gould Schurman, United States Minister, to get on with the business of freeing prisoners and cease haggling, only served to widen the breaches in the Cabinet...
...purpose the discussion of questions vital to university newspapers such as a uniform editorial policy, syndicated articles by prominent men, and a more uniformly satisfactory system for the exchange of intercollegiate news. But it will have besides this the object of improving its organization, so that it may widen its influence over college publications...
Meanwhile, it would be a great advance toward international understanding if we were to widen our acquaintance with French, which must be for most people of English speech, the second language, even if Latin becomes an auxiliary tongue and if Donnay and his countrymen were to learn to speak and write English as well as Chevrillen, the nephew of the Taine, who with Donnay represented the French Academy at the Moliere celebration in America. --New York Times...