Word: wider
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week in Manhattan a group of writers (Theodore Dreiser, Harry Elmer Barnes, Ben Hecht, Booth Tarkington, Edgar Lee Masters, John Cowper Powys, Tiffany Thayer, Harry Leon Wilson), formed a Fortean Society to create wider interest in the work of Charles Fort, author of The Book of the Damned, New Lands (out of print), Lo! (Claude Kendall, Publisher). For 26 years Author Fort has collected phenomena which Science has been unable to explain. He & his friends believe that modern knowledge must be freed of the prejudices of Science...
...will be judged on their ability in answering the questions, which can be divided into two main subdivisions: the first of these will include a number of factual questions which will call for knowledge of small bits of information on various subjects: the second group will call for much wider information on longer answers. The latter will be in "editorial style" and are to be no longer than 500 and no shorter than 250 words...
...Roosevelt was able to announce that William Vincent Astor had acquired a substantial interest in the company, that an affiliate, Baltimore Mail Steamship Co.. was being formed to operate a Hamburg-Baltimore service (TIME, July 21). And a month later it was rumored that Roosevelt Lines was entering wider seas by purchasing control of I. M. M. (TIME...
...Freshman courses might he adjusted to the needs and aptitude of the individual, thus providing for the Freshman within a course some of the advantages given the upper classman within his broader field of concentration under the tutorial system. If the obstacle of expense can be overcome, a wider use of the preceptorial method offers a most promising method of improving instruction in Freshman courses...
...styles with a wide-shell radiator, motors with fuel pumps, greater speed and acceleration. Cost: $535 up. Packard in its line of eights showed small change in body design but a new fuel pump which provides a steady feed and prevents boiling of the gasoline. All new Packards have wider and longer springs, automatic chassis lubrication. For the first time Packard is showing its own custom-made bodies. Prices: $2,385 up. Hudson worked two years on the new riveted body for its eights. All the exterior hardware has been revised. In the motor, show points are: bigger bore, labyrinthine...