Word: wider
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While snotty-nosed Arab children stopped scuffling in the dust to gape and wonder, a disguised Egyptian policeman recently offered to buy a mangy and decrepit old camel for $40, about 20 times its apparent value. The astonished moppets' beady eyes grew even wider as the camel's Arab owner not only turned down this princely offer but refused to sell at any price-and was promptly arrested. Disemboweling the old camel, police found it had been forced to swallow zinc cylinders containing narcotics by Arab smugglers who recently have been driving a surprising number of decrepit camels...
...figures show that there has been a movement towards wider distribution by concentrators during recent years as compared with the early years of the last decade. In 1921, 45 per cent of the upperclassmen concentrated in English and Economics. Today 35 per cent are spread over Economics, Government, and English...
...brushed aside-all the more reason, said he, why the progressives should be back in A. F. of L., to moderate such tendencies. "The obstinacy of one organization caused the break," said David Dubinsky, "the obstinacy of the other organization is perpetuating it and making it deeper and wider...
Final tabulations showed that Harvard students stand nearly four to one behind the recent Neutrality legislation, favor by a very narrow margin an immediate peace conference, but are opposed by a somewhat wider margin (236 votes) to American participation in such a conference...
Attacking the "top-heavy structure" of University government, they maintain that "Entangled in the web of its own methods, the Administration blundered, when wider distribution of responsibility and consultation would have secured proper education policy...