Word: wider
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago the Navy picked up an idea which Inventor Douglas F. Winnek had been working on since 1932. Winnek uses a camera with a lens wider than the distance between the human eyes, and takes his pictures on a special film covered with tiny, transparent ridges. These act somewhat like lenses...
...problem: What would happen to the world's economy? J. P. Morgan & Co., Inc.'s President George Whitney said: "If this country is to prosper we must try to help raise in some measure the standard of living in other countries and thereby bring about a wider market for our goods...
...panel discussion with representatives of Smith and Radcliffe and an instructor of Economics from M.I.T. on the subject "United Nations and the Colleges," Schwebel outlined the work now being done by his group to promote a "wider and more intelligent support...
Spokesmen at Phillips Book Store and the Harvard Book Store emphasized widespread shortages, but asserted that if lists are in their hands early enough, they can make wider contacts in an effort to track down hard-to-get volumes. They pointed out that used book marts throughout the nation, as well as the country's publishing houses, can supply many volumes if informed in time. Both agreed that to date they had received book lists from about 75 percent of the professors at the University...
...between high sales and highbrows was wider than ever-a difference due, in large part, to the fact that the popular writers seemed to dramatize without thinking, and the unpopular writers to think without dramatizing. Nearest U.S. approach to a good combination of thought and drama was Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men, a novel about the Huey Long regime. Among the best of the rest: Conrad Richter's The Fields, Eudora Welty's Delta Wedding, Christina Stead's Letty Fox, Sholem Asch's East River, Jerome Weidman...