Word: wider
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nazis, all of them have lost their homes; some of them have broken nerves. And a great many of them have had their names down for emigration to America for months, even years. May I appeal, through TIME, to the American people to open the welcoming gates a little wider and let some more of them through...
...Only synthetic rubber now in sizable production is Du Font's neoprene. Better methods and wider sales have knocked the price down from $1.05 to 65? a pound. Firestone, already making neoprene aircraft tires, is expected to announce auto tires of the same material...
...great deal of rubber-600,000 tons a year-for elastics, from fingerstalls to truck tires. Practically all (98%) of this rubber is lugged across 8,000 miles of Pacific Ocean from the Far East-British Malaya, The Netherlands East Indies, Burma, Thailand, French Indo-China. Japan, bent on wider control in East Asia, has long had its eye on these parts. And if the British fleet should be destroyed and the U. S. fleet sent into the Atlantic to guard against invasion from Europe, Japan might well be able to grab this Rubberland...
Other cathedrals in the world are longer, wider or higher. But if Manhattan's three-fourths-finished (48 -years -a-building) Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine were sunk in the Sea of Galilee, it would displace more water than any of them. It owes its cubic capacity to one austere little man-Bishop William Thomas Manning of New York. When he succeeded to the see in 1921, St. John's consisted of an abrupt stub: a Romanesque choir and crossing. Bishop Manning (with the aid of professional Money Raisers Tamblyn & Brown) infected New York City with...
...order to bring to wider student attention the results of its April 12th and 13th Conference on Careers in Government and Community Service, the Phillips Brooks House Association has published a pamphlet summarizing the significant parts of the talks delivered over the two day period...