Word: wider
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With little advertising except a two-page "Register" of gloomy provincial hotels, the Saturday Review was most interesting when Lady Houston was most irritated at some new crime of Britain's democratic government. Articles which Lady Houston wanted to reach a wider public than the Review's top circulation of 50,000 (achieved when the price was reduced to 4?) were put on the presses as pamphlets. At such times, Lady Houston's order was: "Keep on printing until I tell you to stop!" Sometimes "Lucy" forgot to call a halt, so the printers always arbitrarily ended...
Converted President Lewis H. Brown of Johns-Manville Corp. thumped for a "wider appreciation and understanding of the social responsibilities of business." It was up to industry, said Mr. Brown, to help supply what the U. S. wanted- "work, more money, still more leisure, security against unemployment now and against poverty in old age, and more and better goods at lower prices...
Mielziner, extended the gloomy back ground of the shadows and cellars under a big city bridge to fit the wider range of Cameraman Peverell Marley's lenses...
...tracing the silverware in this manner, the 17th century is shown to have a far wider variety than its successors. Often there is an almost medieval air to the articles made in this period...
...opportunity for fruitful discussion can be seen from the subject-heads of these tables; government revenue and expenditure, maintenance of employment, and competitive enterprise. Problems of this sort have been occupying an ever wider place in the normal discussions of students during recent years, and observers of the changing collegiate attitude have pointed optimistically to the increased interest in such serious topics...