Word: wider
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scientific ignoramus can come very close to understanding all the technical material it contains. This simplicity is the outstanding literary value of "On Understanding Science." Combined with the book's provocative argument, it makes the initial combination of Conant the educator with Conant the scientist a work of considerably wider popular interest than the majority...
Explained Reck: since tuition fees cover only half the cost of a student's education, every extra student means that the colleges must dig deeper into their endowment income to make up the difference. With expenses soaring and the interest rate slumping, the difference is getting wider & wider...
...Holman, was a Texas ranch hand who had a local reputation as a "hoss traduh." He settled down with his family in Monahans, whose 35 weather-beaten houses marked only a wider place in the road. While Dad Holman kept a livery stable and feed store, his wife ran a boardinghouse grandiloquently called the "Holman Hotel." Young Gene helped around the hotel and attended the one-room country school...
Undergraduates of 1947 obviously fail to see the possibilities inherent in a more active Student Council. The vaunted local indifference has frozen out all chances of making the effort at revision a step in itself toward wider interest in Council affairs. Thus the Council for this year and for 1947-48 will make their marks without the greater undergraduate interest which the campaign for change hoped to arouse...
Jennie Tourel's phenomenal range, from low G to high C, is three notes wider than the average mezzo-soprano's. Says Jennie of herself: "The voice can be like a violin, it can be like a viola, it can be like a cello...