Word: widens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan last week, a ranking U. S. automobile tycoon rose in Boston to speak his mind. Said President William S. Knudsen of General Motors at a dinner of the Associated Industries of Massachusetts: "Our standard of living has been obtained by narrowing the gulf between Capital and Labor. To widen it will unquestionably tend to lower the standard of living instead of raising...
...fortune out of these films but this spring he put his name on a different kind of comedy, a full-length sophisticated picture. It was a good one called Topper, starring Constance Bennett, Cary Grant and Roland Young, and Hollywood sat up and admitted that Hal Roach had widened his horizons in a hurry. Laying his head to Dr. Senise's, he proceeded to widen it still further in a fashion to take even a Schenck's breath away. Few Hollywoodsmen have dared dream of taking in a government for a partner...
...than the present Lincoln Highway-which it crosses three times. Of the almost 14,000 ft. of cumulative climb on the Lincoln Highway, 10,000 ft. will be missing in the new road. Only bottlenecks will be the two-lane tunnels. The almost $400,000-a-mile cost to widen and surface the road, to drain and finish boring tunnels, to employ an estimated 17,000 men for three years, is to be paid for by the eventual users-$1 toll per car, $7 for trucks...
...boys gathered on the half-mile pony track anext the Charles, and John Fugard of Evanston, Illinois, stepped out with "Butch". If was nip and tuck for the first half-mile, but Fritz Iwasko, the flash from Detroit, began to widen a considerable...
...university exists for the pursuit and dissemination of learning. If it is not a place where men may seek the truth with open minds it betrays its true character and purpose. Search for the truth means a constant endeavor to widen the boundaries of knowledge, and there is here a fatal contradiction if men are compelled to accept as final any particular social, political or other philosophy, or if restrictions are placed on their critical faculties, or if they are forbidden to state the truth as they honestly find...