Word: wider
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wide Areas. To get their impressive results, airmen of his command worked in a wider area than Tactical Air Force men had ever worked before. They beat down enemy fields and dumps in the rearmost areas, ranged out to sea to get at reinforcing troops...
...Bell Strikes 12. The divergence between his aims and his mother's was growing wider. In the boom years Mrs. Wolfe speculated in real estate. Tom wished her success, but warned her against losing "the capacity for enjoyment. . . ." In the strange mixture of bad, sincere, flamboyant prose that ran through all his writing, he spoke his unhappy mind: "The golden years of my life are slipping by on stealthy feet at nightfall; there is a footprint in the dark, a bell strikes 12, and the flying year has gone. . . . The great play is yet unwritten; the great novel beats...
...addition, it should be noted that an adequate social security program, financed in part through the budget by progressive income taxation, is a means of securing a wider distribution of income and with it a larger mass consumption of goods. Thus, effective demand is strengthened through an adequate program of social security...
...Army examination, which will be given at the same time and place as the Navy College Training Program examinations, is open to a wider range of applicants, according to Dean Buck's letter. In the case of the Army, no physical qualifications are necessary...
Then Donald Nelson sat back, puffed at a sputtering briar, watched half of Washington rage at his most decisive action in 13 months. The rift spread wider between the nation's armed forces and the one civilian agency which supplies them with arms. The military cried aloud for Nelson's resignation, for appointment of the man who saw the job and did it in World War I-grey old Bernard Mannes Baruch...