Word: wider
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plan to extend the program on a national scale, co-operating with the committee on education of the International conference at Lime, Peru, and to cultivate a wider understanding of political, economic and social aspects which the Americas have in common...
...automatic super-high gear that engages somewhere between 23 and 35 m. p. h., cutting the motor speed down almost to that of the drive shaft. Not the same as freewheeling, the overdrive provides free-rolling efficiency while still retaining the braking power of the engine; is conceded wider favor than free-wheeling since it requires no manual operation...
...paper is still the same. TIME'S type face (except for heads) has not changed; it is still linotype's Old Style #7 set in the same size, 9-point, but in order to improve legibility the lines have been leaded, or spaced out, ½-point wider...
Through bewilderment, perversity, or both, Wisconsin's voters turned out last week to give Coalitionist Henry the Democratic nomination by a wide margin over New Dealer Fox, Republican Heil the Republican nomination by a still wider margin over Mr. Henry. Governor La Follette, weakly opposed by a Socialist in his own primary, won a respectable 4-to-1 victory. Although the failure of the coalition to jell gave him the advantage of another three-cornered fight in November, a new obstacle to his unprecedented fourth term appeared when the Republicans outpolled the Progressives by 60,000 votes, regained momentarily...
...mission from God, second only to that of the priest, to bring the whole world to Christ." French-speaking workers in New Hampshire formed the first Jocist group in the U. S. A Catholic college student of Glendale, L. I., Vincent J. Ferrari, is launching the movement on a wider front, under the supervision of an able Paulist father, Rev. Paul Ward. Four Jocist study groups have been started. Jocist Ferrari, no worker himself, last week appeared minded to modify the thoroughly radical temper of European Jocism. Full of zeal against Communism, he seemed less interested in spreading labor unions...