Word: wider
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sour milk, grisly meat, and bounceable eggs, mentioned in the Lowell report, are absolutely inexcusable and more than sufficient to spoil and otherwise edible meal. Other objections, of somewhat wider application, may be noted...
...which the French usually have to take a new and unpleasant responsibility, old stand-bys like stew are eventually discovered. Only initiates, through long association, remember that Milanaise, Fricandeau, etc., are inevitably connected with certain dishes. One sage diner successfully adopted the simple plan of steering a proportionally wider berth, the longer the French name...
...sent in the name will receive a commission of $20 by going on the Hupp payroll at $5 a week for one month. Nothing is deducted from the salesman's or dealer's commission. Later Mr. Andrews expects to employ more of the public "with a consequent wider distribution of salary checks. . . . There is no limit to the number of names that can be sent. And the salaries we will pay will go up in proportion to the number of sales...
...have been impossible with another actor but Conrad Veidt gives the most convincing performance of a man undergoing a great mental change that we have over seen. He proves himself to be one of the foremost artists. it is unfortunate that he has not been cast in films of wider distribution...
...American civilization, whether it is well done or not. As the writer is representing Harvard--which spends a good deal of its time delving into local college history and perpetuating local tradition,--he is certainly in no position to reprimand Dartmouth for having a mural which covers a much wider field--that of America...