Word: widener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evolutionary futility of the gradually disappearing lungfish looks to the Anglican priest like a crack in the Divine Plan. Joel does his best to widen the crack by comparing Man's brain to Kamongo's lung, both ingenious developments, neither leading anywhere much. Joel likens life to whirlpools in a stream of energy, likens the living matter of cells and bodies to inorganic rubbish whirlpool-caught. The gyroscopic adjustment of the whirlpool to obstacles in its course gives an illusion of intelligent purpose to the rubbish it holds together. Really, all the purpose animating the rubbish is to spin...
...come into closer physical proximity, the spiritual common interests widen perceptibly. In the jostle and activity of our large cities, people lose some of their humaneness, and become calloused toward their fellow men. In the city men don't know or care about their next door neighbor, rural life alone develops human warmth of personality," Dr. Richard Thurnwarld, psychologist and sociologist of the University of Berlin, and visiting professor at Yale, declared in an interview yesterday...
...proposed one-year naval building truce, by suspending all construction (87,600 tons), would serve only to "widen the gap" between the U.S. fleet and other powers...
...environment did widen. First it was the State of Ohio when he went to the Legislature. Something had to be done about aviation, now a public matter. So David Ingalls took once more to the air. The State adopted his aviation code in one magnificent sweep. Next, it was the Nation, when, in the first fortnight of the Hoover Administration he was called to be Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air. More exactly, this new environment is the Nation's Navy, for David Ingalls does not scatter his attention. All the force of his irresistible enthusiasm is given...
Significance. These dismissals, to insurgent Republicans and Democrats, seemed to dramatize and personalize their favorite issue of Power, to build it up for presidential 1932. They felt that the oustings were inspired by President Hoover, and served as a large and concrete wedge to widen the gap between the Administration and the Progressives (see col. 3). They recalled that the dismissal of Forester Gifford Pinchot in 1910 which helped split the G. O. P. and defeat William Howard Taft in 1912 was just such an incident at the time...