Word: wider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...literary event of first importance. The Education of Henry Adams is one of the most entrancing books of the century, it is a veritable treasure house of joy to the reader, it has gone through twenty-five printings and this new and cheaper edition should find an even wider audience...
...Mississippi River. This sum should be increased by from $15,000,000 to $20,000,000 annually, and the increase should tinue for ten years, making a total extra expenditure of from $150,000,000 to $200,000,000. Flood prevention plans should include the building of higher, wider levees; the construction of a spillway* in Louisiana (probably using the Atchafalaya River which is almost a natural spillway and can readily be adapted to the purpose); and the possible construction of an additional spillway north from the Atchafalaya to the Arkansas River. "There is no question," said Mr. Hoover, "that...
...meet President Coolidge,. he returns their greeting with a polite bow, does not usually stop and chat with them. He broke his rule, however, for the sake of a stranger encountered on the steps of the Rapid City High School, temporary White House office. The stranger wore a hat wider even than the President's ten-gallon fishing headgear. In his silk shirt and flowing neckerchief clashed vivid colors. He wore high-heeled, embossed riding boots bearing the letters "put" in white just below each knee. Not even Hollywood could have produced a cowboy attired in more complete accordance...
...Thames Club had years of experience. Stroke for stroke, the two shells raced over three-quarters of the course. Then Kent nosed ahead. Jack Beresford quickly raised the stroke in the Thames Club boat. By a quarter of a length, the Thames Club won that race; later, by wider margins, it captured the Grand Challenge...
...long been established in scholarly fame. His publication of some memoires in the current Atlantic Monthly brings to the most sedate and contemplative portion of the reading public a sense of the unceasing and sensitive powers of observation and interpretation a man must possess to interpret life soundly. A wider, busier, and usually less concerned public will, however, be reached by a rebound of this article. The New Republic has given it a partial reproduction and a complete comment. Few from collegiate ranks revolve such recognition and those few are customarily publicists and administrators. More reflection in this manner...