Word: wider
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even more charming than she was in Sons o' Guns. But black-banged Eleanor Powell, possibly the best lady tap-dancer in the business, gives her a race for being the most attractive female in the cast. Funnyman Lahr's noisy gullet has seldom been put to wider use.. He is successively a slightly bewildered master of a trained dog act ("to train dogs takes a lot of time, patience-and dogs"); an imitator of mammy-singers and Clifton Webb; a manufacturer of bath-tub gin; the victim of a barber's nervous-handed wife...
...associate professor of Government, at the meeting of the International Council in Phillips Brooks House at 7.30 o'clock tonight. Mr. Mason will discuss the economic programs from both the national and international point of view. He will point out that national economic planning forms a barrier to a wider scope in international affairs...
...obviously a difficult medium for anything more than the conventional 'appreciative' discourse on poetry, and these essays can best be taken as an exceptionally graceful and discriminating specimen of that character. They bring little new matter to the contemporary 'rehabilitation' of Dryden's reputation, though they may possibly give wider currency to that phenomenon...
...refused to participate. No longer did it offer the highest rates in the country for its manuscripts, nor did it join the scramble for illustrious names which has characterized even the best American editorship in the recent past. It has never entered any bids for the favor of the wider and less lettered public on which many magazines are now thriving. Instead it has kept its place by its literary "finds" and by a certain dun and academic distinction...
Engineer Scott noted some ways this is done. Cars are wider than they are deep...