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Word: wider (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...English-speaking allies: gold-braided British and U.S. Navy men, R.A.F. men in slate blue. U.S. Army and Air Force men in their brown blouses and "pink" slacks. The British have the third floor, U.S. officers the second floor. On the first floor is the promise of even wider cooperation. There are quartered the Chinese, headed by Major General Chu Shih-ming; there also are the beginnings of representation for The Netherlands, Australia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH COMMAND: Toward Unity | 3/30/1942 | See Source »

...stately crescent of Regent Street the Londoner stepped out briskly without his winter rubbers. He wore his beige raincoat and had his umbrella at the ready, but he swung it; the air was soft and the lengthening days were heady. He forgot to notice that the sidewalks would be wider if the sandbags could be removed, that the skyline was neater before the bombs fell. A car starting up suddenly might make him jump. His children, when they hid in closets and crawled under chairs, informed him pertly that they were playing "shelter." But almost no one said: "You wouldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Hand of Spring | 3/30/1942 | See Source »

...poll will attempt to discover whether students favor a lowered board rate with limitations on quantity to a system of wider substitution with a higher weekly rate to be paid. Questions as to preferences in the type of substitution will also be asked...

Author: By Joel M. Kane, | Title: STUDENTS TO TAKE DINING HALL POLL | 2/25/1942 | See Source »

...Colorado's Summer Session rated high enough to merit the granting of full credit to Harvard students who took them. If this can be done in regard to one department at one particular college, there's no reason for the same thing not to be done on a much wider scale. And Havard's prestige wouldn't suffer in the bargain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Summer on the Charles | 2/25/1942 | See Source »

With a much higher percentage of votes against our entering the war and refusal to help its prosecution, Leverett House remained perhaps the most average House in its wider range of opinions on the poll...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Liberal Union Poll Shows Winthrop Most War-Like, Leverett Most Average House | 2/20/1942 | See Source »

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