Word: wider
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the influx of youth to advanced educational institutions there has come a demand for a wider definition of the liberal education. Investigations by a government survey indicates that the average number and variety of courses offered today, compared with those of 25 years ago, is 500 per cent greater. And, in proportion, the range and variety of opportunities open to the average graduate are far more extensive today than was true 25 years...
...Vincent Gebardi, her blonde hair braided and wrapped around her head halo-fashion, teed off at Chicago's Lincoln Park in the first round of the Illinois Women's Public Parks golf tournament. In wider Chicago circles Mrs. Gebardi is known as "The Blonde Alibi," and wife of "Machine Gun Jack" McGurn, Public Enemy No. 4. Gangster Vincent Gebardi (alias "Jack McGurn") was suspected of participating in the 1929 St. Valentine's Day Massacre. Pretty Louise Rolfe, just out of high school, took the witness stand at his trial, swore that he had been with her in a hotel...
...Atlantic as a sentimental hearty of the right sort. Thousands of undiscriminating readers have hailed this blunt-minded Yorkshireman as another Dickens. Though Priestley himself is well aware that the resemblance is meagre ("I am not like Dickens at all"), his latest book may well give the myth a wider circulation. Dickens' sideline was social sympathy; Author Priestley's English Journey, a lengthy digression into the economic back streets of his country, shows the same individualist concern over poverty and ugliness, the same little-English confidence that character will muddle through the worst economic mess...
...will never appeal to the U. S. masses. But the man-in-the-street, more than half right about the smokescreen, would have missed the coal of truth. This week's company of tail-coated diners were delighted to honor a prominent professional but they also represented a wider audience of deeper views. That audience, which has waded through the lengthy Buddenbrooks and clambered up the perilous slopes of The Magic Mountain, will not hesitate to plunge into the bottomless well of Joseph and His Brothers. Readers to whom Thomas Mann is only a newspaper name may well take...
...ever used in naval operations o his native Greece, and the further distinction of having used this sale to frighten Turkey into buying TWO submarines. The Boer War added to his laurels; Boers shot Englishmen with Vickers guns and ammunition. The Russo-Japanese War provided him with an even wider field for his gifts; Vickers sold as much was material (and possibly more) to Russia as it did to Japan, England's supposed ally...