Word: wider
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...salons rather than among the masses in U. S. saloons. His pride, his bitterness that France with her 100,000 World War II dead and her 2,000,000 prisoners should fare so badly in the popular opinion of friends of her better days, prevents him from making a wider appeal. When he says: "I am pro-French," as a soldier of France he expects to be believed...
...purpose of the annual volume, Dean Williams said, is to make available to a wider public the results of faculty and student research upon problems of government. Besides the faculty and student papers there are also studies by public officials and others who served as consultants in the seminars...
...captain of a ship is like a priest. He is not a mere man, but a symbol of authority. The world of the ship is more strict than any the landlubber knows, yet it is a microcosm of the wider world and its hierarchical values. Upon this parallel, Marcus Goodrich has built the story of Delilah, a U. S. destroyer, a world of 71 men. By any standards, it is a top-notch yarn. But what frames the story, gives it symbolic sense, restrains the turbulent narrative from getting too diffuse, clarifies each character, even makes amends for the faulty...
...Wider use of blood tests is hindered by a lack of expert serologists and the fact that bumbling technicians have sometimes made errors. But expert Dr. Wiener in Manhattan recently settled a Colorado paternity case with blood chilled and shipped to him by plane. Dr. Wiener advised rich oldsters who anticipate inheritance squabbles to attach a blood-group analysis to their wills...
...rule the Princeton lads not only couldn't get squiffed but couldn't even keep a bottle of sherry in their rooms without being theoretically liable for punishment. There has been a minimum of effort to enforce the ruling, however, and the new law is designed to allow a wider and more suitable enforcement...