Word: wider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reckoned in volts, and as the voltage was increased things began to happen to the hydrogen atoms it encountered. Suddenly they began to emit radiation of a definite wavelength, measurable as a single line in a light spectrum. The hydrogen atoms had been excited, their electrons swinging out into wider, more madly rapid orbits. The voltage of the current was increased again, until a second line appeared in the spectrum, indicating that the hydrogen atoms had achieved a still higher state of excitement, were throwing off a new kind of light. Comparing the voltages employed to produce these effects...
...Pronouncements tend to show that "big business" will be served up as the piece de resistance next fall. The alleged laxity of the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice, and the protectionist bias oft Tariff Commission provide traditional issues with social implications wider than the mere corruption charge...
...courts, but that he would welcome a Parliamentary investigation into the Government's responsibility. After several days of party dickering an investigating committee was formed and began to deliberate in secret. The Significance. There appears to be no doubt that the counterfeiting was undertaken with far wider aims in view than the mere enrichment of the counterfeiters. Scarcely anyone questioned last week that its purpose was to finance a putsch designed to set a king upon the vacant throne of Hungary. Count Bethlen himself referred to the counterfeiters in Parliament as "misguided patriots." Regent Horthy refused to refer...
When the Creighton family get to Mexico City they will find a civilization quite other than that they knew in Brooklyn. They will find, it is true, a superficial resemblance in the clattering street cars and the well-paved streets. But they will find far wider distinctions between the social classes. Among the "foreigners," with whom they will associate they will find a ready, kindly, courteous welcome, a welcome tempered nevertheless at first by a quiet scrutiny, for the foreign colony of the city, perforce thrown into rather close communion, always wonders how affably the newcomer will...
...hundreds of them. And as for People In The Next Seats, there are thousands of them. No, this is not a fable; it is an introduction. It introduces to Plympton Street and to the world at each end of Plympton Street, and even beyond, a column worthy longer and wider streets or greens or whatnot, a column which will at worst be a cenotaph, at best a pillar of salt. For, "if the salt shall lose its savor"--whereof the column? To Perfervid Professors and People In The Next Seats is it dedicated. Civilizations and columns are built on both...