Word: wider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three potent New York State power companies (TIME, June 24), only New York Staters were deeply interested. When, last week, final approval of the long-pending merger of Continental Oil and Marland Oil companies was interpreted as first step in a national Morgan oil corporation, public interest was wider but still quiescent. But also announced last week was a Morgan-managed merger of Fleischmann Co., Royal Baking Powder Co., and E. W. Gillett, Ltd.* At that the country sat up and took sharp notice...
...selection of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Robert Hillyer as the two speakers for the annual literary exercises of the Phi Beta Kappa will give the affair a requisite Harvard tinge and at the same time a wider significance, national and even international. They are notable additions to the list of Orators and Poets, which during the long existence of these exercise include many of Harvard's most eminent graduate...
Since the inception of the divisional plan the courses taken in a field of concentration have become a mere means to a mastery of that field. The knowledge gained is tested in the divisional examinations; and in the case of honors candidates, a thesis provides a wider proving ground. When a man has passed his divisional requirements, he is excused from final examinations; his courses, having accomplished their purpose, are discarded. And yet a student may be refused a minor honors degree because in the opinion of the faculty perhaps one of the C's appearing in his record should...
...hatter, of course, takes a bird's-eye view of heads and in the Knox files are thousands of outlines (technically known as "conforms") of heads as they appear when looked straight down at. Generally speaking, there are two main types of outline-a long, narrow ellipse hardly wider at the centre than at the ends, and a short, pear-shaped figure with the wide part at the back. Long and narrow were the heads of Theodore Roosevelt, Robert G. Ingersoll, Victor Herbert. Short and pear-shaped were the heads of Ulysses S. Grant, Charles Frohman, General Phil Sheridan...
...Charles River last week, three Princeton crews beat three M. I. T. crews. Princeton did not use its mysterious new shell, The Flying Dutchman. This shell, anonymously given, appeared prepaid one day at the Princeton boat house. It is eight feet shorter than the average shell, and nine inches wider. Flatbottomed, it is designed to skim the water rather than cut it. When it goes fast, it rises out of the water like a motor boat...