Word: wider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...declared he would vote "yes" in the referendum. To stimulate interest further, he announced in the January issue of the Atlantic Monthly that if the referendum were favorable to the plan, he would take "a second step toward the advancement of world peace with a far wider scope and intent and an award larger and more important in every respect...
...reported at the Hasty Pudding Club House for the first tryout. Mr. Louis Silvers, the producer, expressed satisfaction with the candidates for two reasons. First and most important, there is a predominance of small men, an absolute essential for the chorus. Also indications are that there will be a wider variety of specialty acts than in past years. Two or three men have been tentatively chosen for each part. E. N. Carson '24 and H. N. Pratt '24, stars of last year's production, "Take a Brace," are the only men who are assured of a place in the cast...
...still more flattered, and usually finds himself unable to say "No." In discussing the matter the professor states that because the big publisher does more advertising, his book,--and he thinks of his name too,--will come to the attention of more people and the volume will have a wider distribution. It sounds plausible...
...many cults of mechanotherapy and diagnosis now being practiced (TIME, July 16), none has attracted wider popular attention nor incurred stronger antagonism among regular medical men than the " electronic reactions " of Dr. Albert Abrams, of San Francisco. Who is Abrams, and what is his system...
...made hurly burly of economic tensions, there should still be institutions where young men with the desire to sacrifice a quick start for a wider training may have their desires fulfilled. England is just as busy as America but Oxford and Cambridge continue to pursue "the noiseless tenor of their way". Although institutions like Harvard in this country have been inoculated with the fever, they seem to be tending toward a recovery. Not yet is there much leisure for wide reading, individual thinking, or informal discussions before a fire.' But happily the time should come when those who wish primarily...