Word: wider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...facts of the case might indicate, and by withdrawing from their former stand the Annapolis authorities tacitly admit that such matters are domestic problems bas settled by the institution concerned. The Navy suffers no loss of honour by such a move but only shows a commendable consideration for the wider interests involves...
...Miss Johnson insiders the child's activities and materials, his relation to other children and to adults, and his introduction to language and rhythm. She explains now the nursery goes about its attempt to scale civilization down to the child level in its behavior demands and to open up wider opportunities for alive exploration than an adult world call afford...
...Andover was founded there was no provision for public education beyond what the scattered high schools could provide; for the colleges were very restricted in membership and mainly intended for theological students. By offering many of the advantages of a college without its exclusiveness and by avoiding through its wider range the provincialism of the high schools, such an idea offered the solution and was destined to develop into the present array of schools and colleges in which caste lines have ceased to be a barrier...
...impossible for any group of undergraduates at Harvard to voice the opinion of the undergraduate body as a whole. The Crimson, however, believes that it is representative of a much wider range of student opinion than that expressed by its own membership in desiring a revival of those occasions on which Harvard and Princeton undergraduates are freely thrown in contact with each other. The sources from which both colleges draw their students, the traditions and aims of the colleges themselves are too nearly similar to permit any breach, athletic or otherwise, to be of more than temporary standing...
...York Symphony Orchestra, founded in 1876 by Dr. Leopold Damrosch, and directed since his death in 1885 by his son, Walter Damrosch, has had wider influence on music in the U. S. than any other group. It has played before approximately 8,000,000 people, has traveled approximately 400,000 miles. Because the late Publisher Joseph Pulitzer willed $500,000 to the Philharmonic, it could not legally abandon its identity. Therefore, it changed its name to Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York and at once absorbed the Symphony's directorate. Each orchestra will maintain its separate identity until...