Word: widener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt has been engaged in an oratorical struggle with Adolf Hitler. In his last two sallies, he tried Woodrow Wilson's tactics of talking past Germany's leader to its people. Orator Hitler in his reply last week (see p. 18) did the same, seeking to widen the split in U. S. public opinion behind the U. S. President, to bolster isolationist sentiment in the U. S. by twitting Mr. Roosevelt unmercifully for Woodrow Wilson's failure at world intervention...
...into the whacky farce world of a You Can't Take It With You. The last act wobbles all over the place. This is not miscalculation on Odets' part. It springs from a pretentious-side of him that wants to make every common dentist's office widen out into the universe. Sometimes he mistakes abracadabra for revelation...
...speaking in London for himself, not the Administration, candid Ambassador Kennedy revealed his feelings about the way the crisis was handled and the implications of Munich. Earnestly Mr. Kennedy declared: "It long has been a theory of mine that it is unproductive for both democratic and dictator countries to widen the division now existing between them by emphasizing their differences, which are self-apparent. Instead of hammering away at what are regarded as irreconcilables, they could advantageously bend their energies toward solving their common problems by an attempt to re-establish good relations on a world basis...
...repercussions of Austria's Nazification last week continued to widen through the world. Opportunistic Hollywood threw its hat into the ring as a prospective "American Salzburg." And 200 embattled citizens of arty Westport, Conn, nearly shattered the rafters of their Town Hall with furious protests against the plan to make Westport a "Salzburg on the Saugatuck" (TIME, March 28). Following the meeting, Westport's Board of Zoning Appeals refused to grant Millionaire Patrick A. Powers a permit to continue construction on his $100,000 "Dream Stadium...
...best played contests of the year saw the Lowell quintet widen a two point lead at half time to ten points, as Ralph Murphy pivot shot artist, chalked up eight points in a second half scoring spree. Paced by Shapiro and Kalman, the Ramblers took Leverett despite the efforts of Dick Dawes, substitute guard, who scored ten points for the losers...