Word: wider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about a "New Tammany" cloaked his personal ambition to be President. Smith said Tammany was small-minded; he suspected it had cut his presidential vote in the city for local, selfish ends of its own. Out of politics himself, he wished Tammany would elect as leader some man of wider experience than a district leader- someone like New York's Senator Wagner, for example-someone who could continue Tammany's influence in the National Democracy...
...Hugo, however, whose head, though bloodied, remained unbowed. His capitulation, obviously forced, hinted at unspecified outside interests that had compelled the abandonment of a highly reasonable position. "Certain proposals, for which I have made myself responsible, . . . have become the subject of an acute controversy on a stage much wider than that of the company itself. . . . Proposals . . . made with the sole object of increasing the prosperity of the company . . . prompted by my view that the preponderating interests in our great industry should always be in British hands. ... I have always held the view that our scheme did not prejudice property rights...
...education in America is a hard one. The "tyranny of fashion" which President Lowell points to as so easy under a democracy, is one of these difficulties. The great numbers and the differing abilities of those involved increases the trouble. No wonder that untried theory and visionary experiment find wider acceptance among the secondary schools than in the colleges. The teachers feel that there must be some golden way out, and they are willing to try anything that offers, even to searching about and finding something that the pupil will like rather than helping him to like what time...
...policy seems to be aimed, however, not only in the direction of production but also to secure a wider market for its shares. The first step in this direction was a decision taken four weeks ago to divide its stock from $100 shares into $25 shares, increasing the number proportionately from 500,000 to 2,000,000. The old stock is quoted in the neighborhood of $340; the new at about $85. In the recent purchase of 200,000 of the new shares from British holders and their offer to the public in the U.S., the company was careful...
...held at the pool on Monday, March 25, the Fraternity Meet on Tuesday, March 26 while the fourth annual University Swimming Championships will follow on Tuesday, April 2. The first two of first two of these meets are being held for the first time, being designed to give a wider range of students an opportunity to compete. Entry books for all three meets and a list of the events are posted at the Big Tree Pool...