Word: wider
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Although the tutorial system should not be made the basis of the House Plan--the House Plan is larger and wider in its implications than this system which is merely part of a coordinated education--yet it must be expanded and broadened as the facilities for its administration increase. Chemistry is now the only major department that remains without a general examination and there is no valid reason for its failure to fall into line...
...increase its rate of dividends in the near future, or, in fact, will be able to maintain the increased rate of dividends recently voted. Thus in our judgment, the approval of the company's proposal at this time, would have little, if any, effect in causing a wider distribution of its stock among investors. Such as would occur would, in our opinion, be to the disadvantage of the investor...
...considers his career finds it an organic, continually expanding entity. A graduate in 1864, he returned to teach Philosophy in 1872, and assumed in 1889 the wider duties of the Alford Professorship of natural religion, moral philosophy, and civil polity. Through the period of his teaching, he wrote works on philosophy, education, and English, with the concrete directness of a popularizer of knowledge who could still retain dignity. This attitude was progressive; an ideal of both the University...
...While Prime Minister MacDonald was at the White House, waiting in Manhattan for his turn to see President Hoover was a slender little gentleman who looked not unlike a brownskin edition of Secretary Mellon (but with wider lips). This, a very finicky gentleman with his own chef, an imposing retinue of secretaries, an in come of $3,000,000 per year and a family tree 900 years old, was the much-married Maharajah of Kapurthala in the Punjab, accredited representative to the League of Nations of Their Highnesses the Indian ruling princes. Precisely what he wished to discuss with President...
Coach Horween sent his team into action armed with six plays, a wider assortment than has been shown in previous opening games. These all started from the same formation used last season, the ends wide and a back in motion. Line bucks, off-tackle slants, and end runs were checked by a forward and lateral passing attack. A surprising variation in such an early game was a criss-cross. The backfields, which have been working under the experienced eye of Coach Casey, functioned in good early season order. The timing was off, on occasion, as was shown by the narrow...