Word: wider
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When correctly fitted, contact glasses are almost invisible. Because they follow every movement of the eyeball, they furnish a wider field of vision and a clearer image than do ordinary eyeglasses...
...second League from their point of view, the British objected that it might "emphasize or create tendencies to inter-continental rivalries and hostilities." Finally, in the strongest terms one friendly nation can use to another, the British note voiced fear that, if the European Union is established, "the wider interests both of Europe and of the world may be seriously endangered." Instead of forming a European Union, concluded His Majesty's Government, why not merely appoint a "European Committee" of the present League of Nations...
...have much pleasure in declaring India House open and I trust it may not only serve the imperial progress of that country, but, by spreading sound knowledge, may it foster between the peoples of India and Britain that 'wider sympathy' for which I pleaded many years ago and plead again today...
Than the morning News of Canton, Ohio has had few newspapers of wider fame. In 1926 it became a national figure when its editor, Don R. Mellett, was assassinated for his crusade against an alliance of the police and the underworld in Canton, (TIME, July 26; Aug. 2, 1926). In 1927 that crusade was posthumously rewarded with the Pulitzer prize. Yet the News did not pay. Its owner, James M. Cox, Ohio's ofttime (1913-15, 1917-19, 1919-21) Governor and the Democratic Presidential nominee of 1920, had bought it as a rundown property from Henry Holiday Timken...
...Sweringens' C. & O. asked the I. C. C. to let it split its stock four for one for wider public distribution...