Word: wider
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Episcopalians engage in much the same sort of intramural wars as their brothers in England. But because the Anglican Church is an arm of the State, its affairs cause wider repercussions. Only in England could laymen become as excited as they did last week over a second church quarrel, one which involved the English Church Union. A venerable body, long considered high church, the Union has been headed by 94-year-old Charles Lindley Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax, a stout Anglo-Catholic who from 1863 to 1877 was Groom of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Wales. Last week Viscount...
City editors of big metropolitan dailies have to be well informed. Few have their finger tips on a wider variety of facts about contemporary people and events than Stanley Walker, brisk little city editor of New York's potent Herald Tribune. Not content with doing a first-rate job at a desk that many a colleague has found exhausting, he somehow finds time to turn out book reviews, magazine articles, has now written a book, a timely newspaper-man's-eye-view of Manhattan under Prohibition. Says Star Reporter Alva Johnston, who writes the introduction: "Mr. Walker seeks...
...Inquiry's program for this year is to follow somewhat different lines than that of last. Instead of limiting itself to a single topic, such as the depression, it plans to embrace a wider variety of subjects There will also be at least one meeting on the National Recovery Program, and several on different phases of domestic policy...
...Jeans happens also to be one of the most lucid and forthright. Although in itself a completely new work, "The New Background of Science" really amplifies and brings up to date the material presented in his previous books, such as "The Mysterious Universe" and "The Universe Around Us". Embracing wider ranges of speculation, Sir James manages to render them as comprehensible to the layman as is possible without falsifying his account...
...announcement that Boylston Library will now be kept open on Sundays should over joy concentrators in History, Government or Economics. But of wider interest is the plan to make possible the return of reserved books between midnight and nine o'clock through a slot in a side door of the building. Both these reforms, coming in the prime of the academic year, call to mind once more the disheartening state of affairs in the main library of the University, and suggest to even the blandest observer a number of desirable changes...