Word: widens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...force with seagoing auxiliaries -will have the major say in world affairs. Then the U.S. will no longer be the nation of the county fair and the little red schoolhouse. It will be the nation that has the power by yea or nay to open the seas and widen economic frontiers to all peaceful peoples, to close them as readily to aggressors...
Entirely apart from future rationing, the number of tutors at present is very scarce. Intended, among other things, to widen the student's acquaintance with older, more experienced men interested in the same academic field, the tutorial system putters along on the energy of about one-ninth of the Faculty. And most of the tutors are young instructors who in normal times must worry about their Ph.D.'s, and to whom the draft boards now beckon. The only way to keep the tutorial system off the war-time casualty list is to expand it to include more teachers, especially those...
That politics is everybody's business in war as well as peace is the basic assumption of the new Harvard Forum. With speakers of the Conant, Hershey, Ingersoll, Hillman calibre as the feature attraction, the Forum could do much to widen the horizon of student interest in public affairs...
...satisfied-in time-if the remaining 500,000 odd suitable acres were successfully planted. This year's crush will produce some 8,000,000 lb., about 5% of what the U.S. needs. For the long pull the Department of Agriculture hopes to develop hardier tung trees (to widen the potential U.S. area for tung plantations) and trees that yield more oil per unit...
...this was bitter return for the cost: 500,000 men immobilized on the Eastern Front. Half of these men might have turned the scale in the West. Military experts are of the opinion that only a few cavalry divisions would have been necessary to widen the gap in the Allied line in April 1918, so that general retreat would have been inevitable; there were then three cavalry divisions occupied in occupying the Ukraine...