Word: widener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Premier Wong was also faced by Red pressure in supposedly "safe" areas. In Shanghai, Communists gleefully helped widen a split in U.S.-Chinese relations-capitalizing on Chinese fears of a revived Japan, they sparked student demonstrations against...
...films were equally interesting to "the engineering, production and spare parts division as well." Churches found that foreign missionary activities received more generous support when parishioners were brought, by the motion picture, directly to the countries to be served. Banks and trade associations began to use the films to widen the broad knowledge that their employees need in their jobs. Colleges and schools found that the films made academic subjects come alive...
...Francisco, which wants to widen its narrow lead over Los Angeles as the West's No. i seaport, last week pulled a small coup. It became the third U.S. port to establish a "free trade zone" (the others: New York and New Orleans). In the zone, next to picturesque Fisherman's Wharf, foreign shippers may unload, transship, sort, grade and indefinitely store their merchandise without putting up bonds or going through other costly red tape. Only such goods as are brought into the U.S. are dutiable. The zone will be surrounded by stout wire, and patrolled, to prevent...
Churchill had a better argument for the university constituencies: "They dignify and widen the whole course of our democratic proceedings." Was the government's motto, he asked, "No brains wanted?" Among the departed great who sat for the universities had been Francis Bacon, Sir Isaac Newton (whose only remembered speech was to ask an usher to close a window), the younger Pitt, Peel, Palmerston and Gladstone...
...from Albany tried to do more than that. He wanted to widen the perspective of the men in Washington. Any program of aid to Europe alone was not enough, he said. A successful American strategy in foreign policy must also include aid to China. There must be an end to past contradictions in U.S. policy which had "seen our own Government turn against our wartime Chinese allies and order them, under pain of losing American support, to accept into their Government the very Communists who sought to destroy it." Now, said the Governor: "We have only one choice and that...