Word: wider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when, as the Yale News points out, education is on the theshold of its greatest test in history, in the course of which it must either fail completely or prove that it can be of benefit not, as in the past to a select group, but to a far wider and ever widening circle of mankind--at such a time any reforms, suggestions or policies must, to be successful, strike at the root of the matter. Within a short time with, as has already been pointed out, the general level of wealth rising and the prestige of a college degree...
...much sombre emotion. But as I watched him I was astonished. What was he laughing at? He was singing and playing as though his heart were breaking, and he was grinning as though he had seen something funny. And the darker and more beautiful his singing became, the wider that joking smile grew. I had always thought that I, myself, was as humorous a wight as anyone, but I knew that if I were out there singing that tragical music I wouldn't be grinning all over the place...
Several years ago, Charles N. Haskell, the first Governor of Oklahoma, moved to Manhattan and became associated with what is known as "Wall Street." His original business ventures in railroads, real estate and other Oklahoma activities had left him with a desire for a wider financial field and the funds to use in it. The Oklahoma oil boom led him into speculative oil promotion and financing, and there grew up a group of stocks known as the "Haskell Companies," which were active on the Wall Street exchanges...
...Superfluity. "Remember, we already have arbitration treaties with nearly every important country on earth, and by contract under these arbitration treaties questions of controversy are to be submitted to arbitration. The Hague tribunal is in active existence now and is functioning with wider jurisdiction than the League...
...villain (the hero throws him into a boiling Yellowstone geyser, the geyser evinces internal retching and active nausea, the villain is spewed several hundred feet in the air) provides a grotesque conclusion. One gathers that Mr. Hughes favors either a national code of divorce laws or a wider distribution of geysers...