Word: wider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remarks of "Red" Grange, who recently taught Pennsylvania some of the finer points of open field running. One extract will do to show the poignant lyricism with which Mr. Grange has inspired his biographer: "The poetry of the looming hills was gone, but in its stead there came a wider outlook across the wide plains of Illinois," writes Mr. Braden, smiling mistily through the tears that have been wrung from him by the narration of how the Grange family moved west...
...butterfly grows into a larva, and the larva converts itself into a pupa all bound up in its chrysalis, and finally the bright winged imago emerges. But the egg is separated from the imago by no wider span or stranger transmutations than there are between a tax bill in its first hearings before the Ways and Means Committee and a tax law duly enacted by Congress and signed by the President...
...collegiate athletics in general, your Committee believes that physical exercise is an integral part of education. In these days a young man goes to college with a wider purpose than ever before. In the four years which he proposes to devote to his education he intends to develop not his mind but his whole character. A thorough and successful development of his character cannot be achieved without the amplest opportunity to exercise and to train his body. Your Committee feels that the University has charged it with the responsibility of giving all the students this opportunity and of encouraging them...
...well for the editorial efficiency of the board, and somewhat less well for the artistic impulses governing those who wrote its contents. The editors have placed a wide variety of reading matter at the disposal of the members of Harvard University, and it is to be hoped, of a wider audience. No one may rightly complain that his literary preference has been neglected. If one likes poetry--these is poetry of sorts in this Advocate; there is also some of the other sort. If one's preference is biography--he finds in this number a passage from the life...
...call upon Unitarians of the United States and Canada to make the first biennial conference of the new and wider fellowship of free churches notable in their history, and to give a demonstration of the devotion of the liberal forces of Christianity to their great cause...