Word: widest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What caused widest concern among farm cooperative leaders was the revelation by Chairman Legge of how his Board would handle future wheat loans: The Board would advance its funds to the National Farmers Grain Cooperative at 3½% which in turn would farm out in smaller loans to individual cooperatives, adding "a small additional charge," presumably 2% or 3%. In effect the cooperatives would be paying the same rate-6%-as private commission men for cash. Chairman Legge carefully explained that whatever profit the national cooperative made from the additional interest imposed would in the end go back...
...basic principle of decentralization, its independence of power resources, electric light, its amazingly simplified practicality in the perfection of detail has convinced many of the most obdurate, and has frightened many of the most farseeing. For in its widest implication the Dymaxion house is rather a frightening phenomenon. It threatens the architectural aesthetic round on an accumulative tradition, of Roman, Romanesque and Renaissance design. It dispenses with contracting engineers, with servants, with such domestic appendages as laundries, custom built furniture, electric light bulbs, carpets. It threatens the present economic system of centralized control of natural resources. It may mean...
...education and leisure." Said Major Fred J. Ney, N. C. E. executive secretary, prime mover of the convention: "The real purpose of this conference ... is to develop a keener appreciation-of the educational problems common to the whole of Canada. .... A more special purpose is to draw the widest possible attention to certain aspects of our western civilization which are crying out for consideration. . . . The older countries [invited to the convention] offer something of a challenge to the voice and speed of our western civilization. . . ." The contributions were not startling. Rabindranath Tagore deplored the constitutional western tendency to material thinking...
Mechanically, rubber for engine mountings is the widest innovation. The rubber insulates the engine from the rest of the chassis and reduces vibration and noise...
...Bolivia can proudly hold up before all the nations of America its position as a pioneer in the practical and widest adoption of arbitration...