Word: wider
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...softest mandarin manner, Dr. Kung wheedled governments and bankers from the U.S. to Czechoslovakia for credit. He upped taxes as much as the sweating coolies could stand, winked at the grafters and then squeezed the squeezers. Gradually he was forced to open the floodgates of inflation wider & wider until it has many times seemed that China's skidding dollar would get completely out of control. But somehow U.S. gold, British credit, and Dr. Kung kept economic China going. And the Chinese keep reminding themselves bravely that no nation ever lost a war yet for lack of money...
MacArthur's drive, aiming toward Japan through the Philippines, is the southern crusher of the wider, more inclusive Nutcracker...
...tried to gain wider distribution for Russian films through U.S. theater circuits...
When he showed a subject a flickering light, his brain-broadcasting instrument recorded flickering electrical impulses of the same frequency. This experiment revealed "an interesting borderland" between the visual area and the rest of the brain - the image spread out over a wider area, into parts of the brain not primarily concerned with sight. Dr. Adrian suggests that this spreading activity in the brain represents the reaction of the brain cells to the image, i.e., an approach to thinking. But his recordings of this complex process are so confusing and difficult to interpret that "the present technique of recording brain...
...Navy, fighting a smaller-scale air war, has maintained an even wider ratio of superiority over the Japs. The Navy's round figures, which do not include planes destroyed on the ground but do include planes shot down by ships' antiaircraft fire...