Word: wider
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...admission as a candidate for the A.B.--be it one or the only degree--the ancient languages requirement has been supported on such inadequate grounds as the sentimental, "I took it and it did me good." But with an increasing and just emphasis on wider geographic representation in the college, the fact that many schools feel Latin and Greek is unnecessary as a preparation should indicate that an argument for the classics needs more in its support than a sentence in the catalogue...
...productions of Shakespeare, Chekhov, O'Neill, Ibsen, Schiller, and a repertory of at least 40 Broadway plays. Productions are on an artistic level (in direction, acting, scenery, etc.) that, except for sheer lavishness, would shame a good deal of the stuff shown on Broadway. You can see a wider variety of good theater of all kinds in two months in Berlin than in two years on Broadway...
...Great Illusion. Many of us, even though we had few illusions about Russia, made the mistake of underestimating the dynamism of the Russian system. We believed that, having a wider geographic base than Naziism, the Russian system could afford a more static policy and ultimately find security in the wide belt of eastern Europe assigned to it. A trip through Europe . . . has convinced me that the Russians are not, and will riot be, satisfied with an system of eastern European defenses but are seeking to extend their power over the whole of Europe...
...musicians, whom the New Yorker rated as members of the best collegiate band in the country, are anxious to maintain their pre-war standards of color and size. Walter J. Skinner '48, Band treasurer, said that the wider student support was necessary if they were to be guaranteed the Hanover trip. An additional collection at the greater Holy Cross game attendance this Saturday was suggested...
While other planemakers raced to produce cheaper planes for a wider market, soft-spoken Leroy Grumman galloped off in the other direction. This week his Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. announced its postwar commercial model, the Mallard, an eight-to-ten-passenger amphibian with lush-plush custom-tailored interior. Price: $100,000 & up (depending on the interior arrangement selected...