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...jeweled watches are often called clocks, always counted as clocks. The jeweled watch is an industry by itself.* Development of GTI's new low-priced watch was in line with the company's aim to blanket the clock field. Last year it bought Stromberg Electric to broaden its list of devices like time stamps, job recorders, in-&-out recorders...
...potent Committee on the State of the Church rejected a proposal to broaden the grounds on which Methodist ministers may remarry divorced persons; turned down a "fanatical"' suggestion that "cup" be substituted for "wine"' in the wording of the communion service ritual; sent to the general conference an opinion that unofficial groups like the radical Methodist Federation for Social Service may continue to call themselves Methodist provided they emphasize their unofficial status...
...Crimson wishes Mother Advocate a successful year, but especially that she broaden the scope and variety of her contributors, and thus make herself the true patroness of Harvard undergraduate expression...
...Congress declined to broaden the tax base because it was recognized that the tax base had already been broadened to a very considerable extent during the past five years...
Four years in college should open the mind to vistas hitherto unexplored, and broaden the intellectual horizon to an extent unachievable elsewhere. But in the realms served by heredity, environment, and upbringing, where education has little influence, the individual must go his own way, and attempt to solve the age-old problem of his relations to society. The great danger in higher education is permitting scepticism to turn upon problems whose solution requires more than voluminous knowledge, and far more, than intellectual brilliance...