Word: wider
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looking to the future. . . . [Lawson] represents the Services, the technicians of this new age and the aspirations of the younger generation for the postwar world." The Times murmured: "It would be foolhardy for supporters of the Coalition to treat the verdict of Skipton as a freak result lacking any wider significance...
Collard had it planned, on paper. There would be a broad-gauge line (he preferred the wider roadbed for safety at high speed) from London to Paris. The underchannel bore would be 24 miles long, between Dover and Calais. Electric locomotives doing 92 m.p.h. would pull trains carrying 508 passengers. The trip would take two hours, 45 minutes. The fare would be ?2 ($8). There would be 22 trains daily. The cost would be ?190 million. Annual gross receipts would be ?35 million; net profit, ?12 million. That would be 6.3% on the investment...
...Office of Censorship will assume wider responsibility in clearing news. Heretofore the codes have requested that various kinds of information be withheld except when such information is made available "by appropriate authority." Hereafter the Office of Censorship, Price said, "will itself undertake to act as an appropriate authority...
...Manhattan columnist, verbally cracked their heads together. The M.P., Emanuel Shinwell, had been scandalized by the columnist's report that Bracken had "found better British woolens" than London's in Manhattan, ordered nine suits there. The columnist's story was all wool but a good deal wider than a yard: actually, Bracken had brought some cloth given him by a "generous American" to nurses in London...
...This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with Destiny," Destiny looked to the U.S. like such things as slum clearance and wider highways. Last week, abroad, Destiny appeared to be wearing, for the moment, the hard, square face of Joseph Stalin. At home, Destiny looked like "realism," the 1943 American word of the moment...