Word: widespreading
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Student Council, where students still feel that undergraduate opinions, in spite of widespread unconcern are indispensable guides in administrative decisions of the University (and even there, apathy of others has deceptively bred an illusion of their own superior intelligence...
Despairing Stanislaw Mikolajczyk announced at week's end that he would ask the Supreme Court to nullify the elections because of widespread violations of law, and would possibly forward a protest to the Big Three, who had guaranteed free elections. But Mikolajczyk himself could only look forward to being kicked out of the Government and waiting to see how far the Government would go to smash his party and end his opposition for good. Said he, mulling over a TIME report (Dec. 9) that had said he had "the highest popularity and the lowest life-expectancy" in Poland: "Lowest...
Results of a preliminary appraisal by the Student Council of the University's current experiment in General Education indicate widespread student approval of the G. E. courses offered this term, but call for some changes in content and in method of presentation...
...shirt and a red silk tie, carefully disarranged to avoid any appearance of bourgeois neatness, he spent two hours and twelve minutes in passionate exhortation. As Nenni's voice rose & fell in practiced intonation, while he raised a warning finger, clenched his right fist, grandly embraced Congress in widespread arms, or modestly spread his long, strong fingers against his chest in a self-effacing gesture, men & women stared seriously and intensely, many with mouths agape as if to suck in the meaning of the precious words...
Spokesmen at Phillips Book Store and the Harvard Book Store emphasized widespread shortages, but asserted that if lists are in their hands early enough, they can make wider contacts in an effort to track down hard-to-get volumes. They pointed out that used book marts throughout the nation, as well as the country's publishing houses, can supply many volumes if informed in time. Both agreed that to date they had received book lists from about 75 percent of the professors at the University...