Word: widest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...long accused Manhattan's mighty Metropolitan Museum of slighting contemporary U.S. art. This week the Met atoned for its former coolness with a show that surveyed the field exhaustively, and exhaustingly as well. No less than 6,248 painters had submitted works for the exhibition. To get the widest possible spread of work and judgment, the Met had appointed regional juries in Dallas, Santa Barbara, Richmond, Chicago and Manhattan. The regional juries rejected all but 761; then a national jury cut the total down to 307-more than enough to constitute a full report on the state...
Thanks to his ROTC training in self-confidence and leadership ("In establishing a road block, make certain to put your machine guns in positions where they will have the widest angle of fire!") Ted Wright has been readied for success in either military or civilian life. For BU freshmen, Ted has only this to say: "Gosh, most outsiders don't have any idea what this training has to offer...
...subsequently found that Canton Island was nine miles long and 500 yards at the widest. Its population was 40. Enderbury Island was three miles long and one mile wide, and had a population of four persons! Manchuria, of course, has a population of 33 million and an area of about 413,000 square miles...
...other bolder plan called for holding the widest possible perimeter, including Taegu and Pohang. This would mean stringing out in a thin line and shuttling units back & forth to block enemy thrusts; but for political, morale and strategic reasons it seemed to the top command important to hold Taegu, the provisional capital of the South Korean government and an important base for U.S. tactical aircraft. The hold-Taegu strategy, obviously ordered by General Douglas MacArthur and General Walton Walker, prevailed. By last week there were heartening signs that that strategy was correct...
...will withdraw from Germany in 1952. 2. Germany should be politically integrated into a free Europe. 3. There will be no German army or air force. 4. The German people, subject to certain considerations, should have the widest freedom. 5. The U.S. will continue to aid Berlin...