Word: wider
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been in and out of practically all the big U.S. plane plants and training fields. He is a licensed pilot-and has flown more than 150,000 miles on assignment-to Alaska and Europe and all around the rim of South America. Probably he brings to his job a wider background knowledge of aviation-both in the flying field and the factory-than any writer in the country...
...last Thomas was about ready to holler "Uncle." Before he began his next song, a beater was delegated to quell the disturber. Thomas lifted up his voice, the bullfrog chimed in. The beater cracked the water with his stick. The startled bullfrog shut his mouth. Singer Thomas opened his wider...
...stick together. The easygoing Egyptians have only to look at what has happened to other conquered countries to learn what will happen to their foodstuffs, money and personal liberties if the Nazis succeed. Prime Minister Mustafa El Nahas Pasha's pro-British Government is more stable, has wider popular support than the Government a year ago. The anti-British ex-Prime Minister Aly Maher Pasha has been jailed. Within recent weeks 200 other possible quislings have been arrested, a padlock put on the Cairo Royal Automobile Club, which since the war has been a spark plug of pro-Axis...
...bill last week Congress authorized the spending of more money on the Army alone than the total U.S. cost of World War I-$43 billion against $40 billion. Already the nation as a whole is bending its efforts to win on a far wider scale than in any former war, none excepted. And still the nation is in jeopardy...
...number, the 1941-42 Guardian Board again has wisely chosen the policy of printing articles dealing both with the immediate issues of the war and with the larger problems confronting the nation during and after the period of actual hostilities. If continued, this policy will give the publication a wider appeal than it could acquire by concentrating exclusively on one of the two aspects of the nation's current history...