Word: wider
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Young Winnie Churchill's fabulous escape from Pretoria made him world-famous while he was still trying to prove he could grow whiskers. But the escape has a wider significance than that. It symbolizes Winston Churchill as Winston Churchill so aptly and lovingly symbolizes Great Britain's unwillingness to give up when apparently cornered...
...George Cross, decreed George VI, "ranks next to the Victoria Cross" (which is the supreme British decoration awarded for valor in the Armed Forces), and the George Medal is "for wider distribution" -i.e., will probably be awarded wholesale among British fire fighters and airraid wardens of valor. Purpose: to strengthen the morale of the civil population, which was inevitably beginning to feel the strain...
Cambridge is wider awake than ever before to the inadequacies of its government, Dean Landis asserted in an interview yesterday. "The increased responsibilities that we have placed on the old municipal mechanism has made the machine creak. Regardless of the personalities in control, the Cambridge government is unable to handle present-day problems...
...nonsense. South, Central, and North America is vulnerable, not only to systematic pro-German propaganda and to economic penetration, but to direct armed attack. We ourselves sent 2,000,000 troops to Europe, in 1917-18. We have been twice invaded from Europe, when the Atlantic Ocean was much wider than it is now. It all depends on who commands the seas, and in the event of the destruction of the British fleet we lose that command, perhaps forever...
...Ogdensburg, N. Y. by Franklin Roosevelt and Canada's Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. The arrangement itself was greeted in Canada with delight. Canadians like the U. S. They have to: The Dominion of Canada is vast but inhabited Canada amounts to a corridor, nowhere much wider than 200 miles, which lies snug against 3,000 miles of U. S. border...