Word: widest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...global struggle of World War II, it is likely that the Navy will take over more unified commands than the Army. But in the Far East, where the widest application of the scheme has been set up, British General Sir Archibald Wavell is in supreme command of the United Nations, outranking U.S. Admiral Tommy Hart, head of all Allied naval activities...
...conceive of this journal as bridging the gap between college publications and the commercial magazines. Our pages are open to the widest diversity of opinion. We are vitally concerned with the democratic defense against totalitarianism, but we do not capouse any further, more specific, political or economic doctrines...
...purging the officers' ranks was even more important as a morale-booster, for a bad officer does more damage than a bad private. The purge was begun on two fronts. Widest was the Army's group of citizen-officers-the 91,150 from the National Guard and reserve...
...26th meridian, which would still leave Iceland in Europe's hemisphere. When the 26th meridian proved unsatisfactory to the President, Dr. Bowman pondered some more, obligingly came up with Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson's mid-channel theory. According to Explorer Stefansson, the line should run midway through the "widest channel" between Europe and the Americas, would give Iceland to the Western Hemisphere...
...believe in an all-wise and all-loving God, named by whatever name, and that the individual's highest fulfillment, greatest happiness and widest usefulness are to be found in living in harmony with His will...