Word: widens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cited women's "special spiritual and emotional fitness to be rabbis." But after prolonged debate, the Reform group decided not to follow the Northern Presbyterians (TIME, June 6) in putting women in the pulpit, and voted to defer the issue for at least a year. It would widen the gap between the Reform and the Conservative and Orthodox branches of Judaism, and, said Rabbi Solomon B. Freehof of Pittsburgh, would be "too great and too needless a break with tradition...
...universe, Gold believes that distant galaxies, which cannot be seen because they are moving away as fast or almost as fast as light, are not real in the ordinary sense. As man's instruments improve, he can catch more and more of these runaways, and this will widen the horizon of his observable universe just as the earthly horizon is widened by climbing to a hilltop. But it is not correct, says Gold, to assume that unseen and unseeable galaxies extend into space forever beyond the cosmic horizon. For the purposes of cosmological theory, a galaxy beyond the horizon...
...view of these patent dangers, it is distressing that the United Sates Post Office will soon ask Congress for even more effective controls over imported Soviet publications. When the request is made Congress should not widen the Post Office's censorship powers, but should instead take this opportunity to annul them...
...class are the movies which reproduce a printed page. The words, however, appear on the screen phrase-by-phrase so that it is impossible to look back on what has been read. By increasing the speed of the projector, the instructor forces the student to read faster and widen his eye span...
...inclusion of a Pakistani instead of an Indian adviser in Hammarskjold's entourage. Next day Hammarskjold had an interview with Nehru, who told him that by passing its "unfortunate resolution" the U.N. "had again crossed the 38th parallel." Unless Hammarskjold showed "humility" and was prepared to widen his discussions to embrace "a wider settlement," counseled Nehru, he was probably wasting his time...