Word: wider
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bull dozer's and teams of men worked away through the hot summer months molding mountain shoulders with an eye for the first snow. Steel beains and steel towers were erected, wire cord was hung to feed more trials, wider than ever, with a network of town for the benefit of parallel enthusiasts...
Died. Lieut. Commander Allan Ramsey Wurtele (rhymes with "fur tell"). U.S.N. (ret.), 54, pioneer in mechanized cane-farming; of a heart ailment; in Mix, La. Wurtele invented a mechanical cane-harvester, and developed a process for converting sugar into synthetic rubber, attracted wider attention in 1939 when he proposed a plan to appease Hitler by buying him Danzig and the Polish Corridor for $70 million (Wurtele offered...
Teachers who instructed both experimental and regular classes testified that the former "learned more . . . gained wider knowledge and better learning habits [and] an increased understanding of historical perspective...
...Bishop of Birmingham listened to his Archbishop's denunciation last week with a faint smile. "There is no question of my resigning my bishopric," he told a reporter afterwards. Dr. Fisher plans to take no further action. But his rebuke of the free-thinking Bishop served a wider purpose: to remind all easy-going Anglicans that 1) what a man believes is as important as what he does, and 2) the Apostles' Creed means what it says, even if some of those who recite it don't think...
...Army, rather than Marxism, the credit for Russia's present powerful position, Pundit Lippmann was on debatable ground-and had failed to note that the Red Army was built by Russia's Marxist rulers. And did Lippmann mean to say that Stalin's objectives were no wider than Peter's old-fashioned imperialism? It seemed clear to many people that Soviet Russia was a new-fashioned force...