Word: wider
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will shift far from the point where it has reposed for a century and a half. In the long range picture no other part of the budget message had a tithe of the significance of that one sentence. Yet, in immediate import, other budget points cut a far wider swath in the news...
...Century, when all cars looked like buggies. For what it may be worth-and there is no agreement on its value-streamlining in some degree was stamped into every body. Hoods were rounded, radiator grilles Vshaped and sloping, rears smoothed out in sweeping lines. Bodies were longer and wider, motors more economical...
Having seen all these arrangements the President rolled into his own new office?oval like the old one but, by his order, two feet wider, two feet longer. Handsomest room in the building, it is decorated with the great Presidential Seal set in the ceiling, has indirect lighting simulating daylight. All the furniture is old except a new duralumin lamp upon the desk. The President found it all just as he had planned it. Waiting in an adjoining office ?the only one in the building that is pink instead of green?to take his dictation was Private Secretary Marguerite...
Following U. S. practice, Canada's new banknotes will be smaller than heretofore, fractionally shorter and wider than current U. S. bills...
Ideally, the now Advocate should contain a combination of undergraduate opinion regarding literature and the social sciences. The fact that English is still the most popular field of concentration guarantees ample treatment of the former topic. But the wider realm of government, political science, and international relations has been slighted in the past. World-wide conditions, however, are of constantly more pressing import to the student, and that it will now have a chance to express his views in a medium expressly provided for that purpose is proof that a much-needed opportunity has at last been provided...