Word: wider
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other Duke interests occupy three floors of No. 535 Fifth Ave.) unless she is off in Newport, where she maintains a handsome establishment, or in Europe. (She was absent from last week's dedication. Daughter Doris attended, appeared bored, left after a short while.) Personage of a world far wider than the Duke institutions have yet become, she is respected by her husband's executors as his most personal representative left on earth. Yet they can feel their work is far more important than she is. For, as Board President Allen recalled at last week's ceremony...
Such men were prime examples by which a World Conference on Work for the Blind, which met in Manhattan last week, could prove that the blind and the purblind*can succeed in man-to-man competition, if given opportunity. The limits of their ability are far wider than commonly supposed. The necessity of providing work for the blind is great. The U. S. has 100,000 blind, the world six to ten million. Vast numbers could support themselves...
...their recurrence is not less education but more." To this end, Dr. Hutchins shows the need of developing education in four respects. First, more money will be needed for any radical improvement--an almost superfluous observation. Secondly, there must be a more liberal extension of academic freedom through a wider integration of fields of knowledge and research. Further, on this liberal basis of scholarship there must be encouraged a more intensive study of human problems; and lastly the results of this study must be disseminated more widely by means of adult education through extension institutes in universities...
Other newsworthy speeches were made by William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, who was booed when he opposed U. S. recognition of Russia; Robert Paine Scripps, president of Scripps-Howard newspapers who demanded a shorter workweek, a wider distribution of wealth; Frank Murphy, red-headed Mayor of Detroit, whose description of his city's $2,000,000 per month Unemployment relief brought forth great cheers. Present at the conference as a silent spectator, was Ohio's Democratic Senator Robert Johns Bulkley, whose friends hope to put him in the White House (TIME...
...course of my study of the Spanish language I have been impressed by the fact that the term generally in use in Argentina in referring to foreign trade is 'intercambio comercial' [commercial interchange]. That, to my mind, is wider than our own and gives a clearer conception of the essential reciprocity of trade. Failure to recognize trade as interchange, obstacles placed in the way of reciprocal trade, are perhaps the main causes of the world's present trouble. If, as we all hope, the response of the Argentine purchasing public to the appeal of the exhibition leads in some measure...