Word: wider
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Finnegan and Speechwriter Willard Wirtz. As rumors mounted that Adlai was preparing to concede, the Eisenhower landslide rumbled on. Ike put the lie to the "as-Maine-goes" Democratic victories of last September (TIME, Sept. 24) by sweeping up Maine's five electoral votes by an even wider margin than his 1952 victory. He surged ahead in Chicago's heavily Democratic Cook County, picked up a three-to-two lead in pivotal Pennsylvania. The Boston Herald hit the streets with an extra predicting that Ike would carry Massachusetts by 250,000 votes...
...There are wider implications than this, for this reckless and foolish decision has been taken just when events in Poland and Hungary had given the free world its greatest hope and encouragement for ten years...
...added that "the hope for improvement of the parking problem in crowded areas lies far more in wider observance of parking regulations by all members of the community than in the systems of enforcement, however important the later...
...Wider Audience. Since there are no interruptions during the lectures, the star can cover in half an hour what would take him 50 minutes in class. Otherwise, the teachers' performances are just as they would be at their colleges. They use no gimmicks, speak from a set that looks like an ordinary classroom lecture platform. Each daytime lecture is put on film and shown again for students who can study only at night...
...Chicago's experiment continues as successfully as it has begun, the TV college may well become a standard part of the U.S. educational system. Though it can never take the place of a live campus, it may be a way to present top academic talent to a wider audience and help relieve the nation's classroom and teacher shortage. In any case, WTTW is giving scores of men and women, including 52 who are handicapped, their only chance to go to college. Among the handicapped: a totally paralyzed 22-year-old who must depend on a rocking...