Word: widens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dean Wilbur J. Bender yesterday challenged a statement in President Conant's report, which blamed the National Scholarship program for crimping the College's attempts to widen it geographical representation...
...That is the common sense of the matter. Otherwise the state and religion would be aliens to each other-hostile, suspicious and even unfriendly. We find no constitutional requirement which makes it necessary for government to be hostile to religion and to throw its weight against efforts to widen the effective scope of religious influence...
...months Winston Churchill's Tories smiled in smug satisfaction at the division in Labor's ranks, and sometimes slyly tried to widen the breach. Last week the Laborites were gazing hopefully at a small rift in the ranks of the Conservatives. It was led by a group of young Tory backbenchers...
...pointed out that the number of cars in Cambridge has increased by 50 percent since 1945. Because there are not sufficient funds available to widen streets, off-street parking is held as the only realistic solution...
There is strong reason for objecting to the "restricted" classification. One of the purposes of theses is to widen the boundaries of knowledge, and a basic postulate of free universities is that all their discoveries shall be publicly available. Furthermore, the criterion of "embarrassment" is particularly offensive; it could easily include theses which point up inadequacies in university curricula or government programs, for example. If the Social Relations Department can ensure that its theses are properly scholarly jobs, it need have little fear of exposing them to the press or to the public. It has much to fear from locking...