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...Bender phrases it. Harvard's chief consideration is academic superiority and its reputation will automatically attract true scholars. Objective examinations like the College Board scores will further eliminate any academic incompetents. But beyond this solid core of high intelligence, the College seeks a "balance," an undergraduate body with the widest possible range of skills, tastes, and backgrounds. Geographical location is an important factor, and the Committee on Admissions, while weighing grades highest, will then start the selection process in the west and work east. The danger here is that many a fine student from an eastern school...
...project that has the widest horizon is the ultraviolet microscope. Its prospects as an aid to medical scientists in their probe of the mysteries of life appear limitless...
...Nash Statesman and Ambassador (Nash's small car, the Rambler, is essentially unchanged) are clean and speedy-looking, with sloping hoods that give them greater road vision than many other U.S. cars. The new models have 25% more window space than last year's and the widest seats on the road (64½-in. rear seat, 65-in. front), although the body is only 1 inch wider...
Carter is a smart, aggressive publisher, and knows better than to harbor any literary pretensions (by the widest estimate he has read no more than a dozen books in the last half century). He sees the promotion of Fort Worth as one of his major publishing duties, on the theory that whatever makes the city grow will, in time, make the Star-Telegram grow. It works. Friends estimate that at least one person out of four, in Fort Worth's current metropolitan population of 303,701, is there because of an industry, office or military installation which was coaxed...
...bishop, McConnell had more scope to develop his idea of a social gospel, and his definition of "social" was of the widest. It included defending liberal professors threatened with expulsion by their colleges, supporting trade unions, attacking "militarists" and "Fascists" where he thought he saw them...