Word: wider
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...organization or of a third party. In this condition, those who oppose what is being done are forced to look to the Republican Party as the framework through which to express themselves. The great question therefore is whether the Republican Party will live up to an obligation which is wider than the party...
...great fall in 1931: MacDonald, Philip Snowden and James Henry ("Jim") Thomas. The two factions in the Cabinet split wide on Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley's plan to break unemployment by huge public works plans. Old George was for it; the Three against it. They split wider on unemployment insurance payments. Snowden, speaking of "treasury difficulties and impaired credit," favored increasing the premiums or reducing the benefits. Old George wanted neither. He told Snowden: "I never have been able to understand treasury economics. ... I can't see that ?20 taken from a rich man and given...
...series of correct answers which dovetail with a series of questions. These colleges served the purpose of preparation for the vocational training of the universities. In England the pattern was changed, as other things were changed, by the impact of the Reformation; the universities became bundles of colleges, where wider intellectual curiosity was educated by tutors and reading rather than by a regular journey over a number of fixed bodies of fact...
...starting inter-house debating Mr. Rowe expects to stimulate wider interest in debating among the members of the University, and believes that these informal debates will attract many men that otherwise would not have shown any active interest. Such stimulation of interest, it is believed, will lay a better foundation for the regular University debating, and make it possible for prospective debaters to gain the experience necessary to become members of the University debating team...
...following statement was issued by Mr. Rowe yesterday: "Plans have been made for a series of inter-house debates on questions of peculiar interest to members of the University in the houses, as well as on questions of wider general concern. A committee will be formed in each house, and these committees will probably meet some time late next week. They will arrange the promotion of debating activity among the house members. From the warm responses we have had thus far from residents of all the houses there is every reason to hope that inter-house debating will become...