Word: wider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Penetrating behind the electoral votes predicted in 1924 to the ratios of popular votes then predicted by the Literary Digest, Democrats last week pointed to wider margins of error. Dr Fabian Franklin, Manhattan economist-publicist, in a debate by letter with Editor William Seaver Woods of the Literary Digest, compared the predicted ratios of Davis and Coolidge votes in 1924 with actual ratios. In 22 states, the Literary Digest's figures predicting what percentage of the Coolidge vote the Davis vote would be, put the Davis vote from 10% to 48% too low. Had the 1924 election not been...
...newspaper is the Kansas City Star (in the morning it is called the Times). The Times and the Star are as essential to Kansas City as coffee for breakfast and napkins for dinner. Kansas City, Mo., has some 385,000 inhabitants; but the Times and the Star, covering a wider field, have a combined daily circulation of almost exactly 500,000. Their only competitor has been the morning-evening-Sunday combination of the Dickeys, father and son. Last fortnight, the Dickeys discontinued their morning paper, threw all their efforts into their evening-Sunday paper, calling it the Journal-Post. Again...
This situation may be attributed in part to the increased interest such presses are arousing due to the fact that they are producing a wider distribution of publications. Formerly they were forced to struggle along as best they could with the handicap of printing only very heavy material and scholarly works of research which naturally had a small market...
...easily have been friends of onetime-hobo Tully on the road. Wallace Beery,* who can put more lasciviousness into the simultaneous lifting of eyebrow and stroking of whiskers than most cinemactors can in 500 feet of ponderous leering, has been permitted to graduate from the oaf class into the wider world of characterization. Louise Brooks, as usual, is decorative, never decorous. Richard Arlen does honestly the flaming-tempered youth...
...growing unpopularity of college competition is not shown only in a dispersion of candidates over a wider field, and segregation of a few into many places, but by the aggregate number of aspirants for posts in the activities. This is smaller than five years ago. Not only are the students becoming more precious and demanding in their choice, but they are becoming increasingly chary of sharing any part of themselves with an organization, just for a ribbon to stick in their coats. They are not grinds, or fly-by-nights; they simply know that they are going to do what...