Word: wider
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hoover scotched this subsidy plan, won much public applause. He, said his friends, would show the Senate who was master. Nevertheless, that first victory cost President Hoover the friendship and support of Senator Borah and the Insurgents. A breach in the G. O. P. was then opened that gapes wider than ever today...
...independent organ of publicity for the Harvard Graduate School of Education has been established in the recently founded Harvard Teachers Record. Although the magazine is not a wholly new venture, since it continues a series of supplements to the Harvard Alumni Bulletin, its new form will give it a wider field of influence in the educational world...
...wider recognition that now is the time to think and act for the upbuilding of society would bring about more anniversary celebrations of this progressive type. Incidentally, it would wipe out the reproach sometimes attaching to ultraconservative organizations which had their inception in the deeds of revolutionaries. That familiar saying, "The radicals of one generation are the conservatives of the next," would then be less often applicable...
...four accounts the name of Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel was featured in last week's news: He resigned as manager of the Roxy cinemansion in Manhattan "to enter a much wider field of activity." He was mentioned as probable general director of Radio City, big midtown amusement centre being developed by John Davison Rockefeller Jr. and Radio Corp. of America. He was awarded the first biennial medal of the Music Division of the New York City Federation of Women's Clubs as "the person who has done most to advance the cause of music in the City...
...promising future for exchange scholarships presaged by recent developments has, perhaps, a wider significance than the broadening reaction on the individual. In an age of unconvincing anti-war pacts and armament reductions, nothing could aid more toward a peaceful understanding among nations than the intermingling of students in the common pursuit of Knowledge...