Word: wider
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Departments, especially larger ones with more men writing theses, should not find it hard to make up such groups and try this system. From the time a student gets his first inkling of his subject, to the moment when he puts pen to paper for the first draft, this wider contact with like-minded men can do a lot to build a stronger foundation for the thesis, the work that represents the culmination of the tutorial system...
...critical times as these, should concern itself actively with these two complementary tasks. To deny the Association or any other sincerely interested group the right to examine and help select the textbooks for the public schools would violate a right and a spirit inherent in the democratic process. A wider interest in our schools by every type of sincere citizen is one of the great needs of the system today...
...enjoyment of the fruits of scientific progress in a wider and constantly rising standard of living...
...Encouraged by his customers, Joe began to write weekly essays-hard-earned wisdom couched in his own lingo. He had his pieces punctuated by a race-track handicapper with a high-school education, mailed them to his clientele. In ivy-clad Eastern dormitories, Madden's essays had a wider circulation than those of Lamb, Addison or Steele. Today Joe Madden sends his weekly bulletins to 3,000 customers, a select fraternity he fondly calls "the mob." He has published three books: What'll You Have, Boys?; The Back Room; Set 'Em Up! He does...
...fifth Godkin Lecture last night at Littauer, the distinguished export on planning and administration declared that "analysis of national income reveals wide discrepancies, wider than are comfortable in a democracy." He supported this statement with figures from a study of the National Resources Planning Board, of which he is Vice-chairman...