Word: wider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago and the eastern centers of consumption, but is also essential to southwestern cotton planters, wheat growers and cattle raisers. By producing either double track lines or else alternate routes between the southwestern centers of production and Chicago, traffic congestion is prevented, speedy freight service insured, and particularly a wider market for perishable western fruits is provided. The Atchison's building program has a much greater significance to the growth of the Southwest, and to American business generally, than many of the legislative proposals that obtain a hundred times as much space in the public press...
...been urged that when two nations are too deeply severed in tradition, culture, and intellectual attitude. It is dangerous for them to study each other too closely. The perception of an unbridgeable gap may be another wedge to drive wider apart the rift of international misunderstanding. But whether the cause of international amity be promoted or not by indiscriminate exchange of students, it is certain that residence among a foreign people incites to closer self-scrutiny, more accurate national appraisement, and a healthier spirit of international understanding...
...unfortunate that a wider degree of publicity was not accorded the building plans before they were put into execution. Although the final decision of the planning board is doubtless the most practicable, there will be many who feel that further extension of the University should be carried on in the territory lying between the Yard and the River, rather than in the already occupied area of the Yard itself. There were doubtless many valid reasons, however, for the rejection of this program in favor of the one now in operation, which those in charge of the physical extension...
...whole, we are left with the feeling that in Elsie Hits and Bernard Nedell, Mr. Giles has found the two members of the cast that he has so sorely needed this season. With a play that gave them a wider range for their ability, they might show their talent to better advantage...
...point this out, to encourage all men who have become of age, to avail themselves of the opportunity to vote, the clubs would be accomplishing a great service. It also seems to me that a straw vote would be a good measure to stimulate interest, to secure a wider participation in political affairs. When I was at college the fashion used to be to indulge in torchlight parades, marching right into Boston. Perhaps this has become old-fashioned now but it was a great way to arouse enthusiasm. The Republican Club has taken the lead in securing a really first...