Word: breadth
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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About Ispwich the marshes furnish views beautiful in their breadth and simplicity; nearer Cambridge, as in Waverly, Woburn, the Middlesex Fells, and in the valley of the Mystic there are many scenes of great attractiveness. The landscape views of this region are mostly small in effect. It is only along the coast, on the marshes and on the hills, as in the Blue Hills, that we find breadth and largeness of view...
...March Monthly is, in the timeliness and merit of its articles and editorial, one of the best numbers that has appeared this year. In the well-proportioned breadth of its contents, also, it is calculated to please undergraduate readers. Beginning with a careful article on "The Gay Lord Quex"--which has recently been so prominent about here--it proceeds with a lively newspaper story, a capital appreciation of Guy de Maupassant, and one of the most amusing and well-told hunting stories that has recently appeared in undergraduate fiction. These contributed articles, together with the pertinent editorial on the wearing...
...great measure that prevalence of sound constitutional doctrine and opinion that has made the permanence of the Union possible. To this and all his work John Marshall brought "a great stateman's sagacity, a great lawyer's lucid exposition and persuasive reasoning, a great man's candor and breadth of view, and that judicial authority on the bench, allowed naturally and as of right, to a large sweet nature which all men loved and trusted...
...general construction to an ordinary eight, which will be supported from the bottom of the tank by metal braces, skeleton underwork and water proof compartments, through which the returning current of water will pass. On either side of the boat will be a wooden platform four feet in breadth which will serve as a support for men getting in and out of the boat, and upon which the outriggers will be attached. The water in the tank will be about thirty inches in depth...
...artificial bathing beach for the use of the general public is being laid out on the Cambridge side of the Charles river just above the Longwood bridge. The beach will be 800 feet in length and the breadth at low tide 180 feet. A raft has already been set out, with buoys and life-lines. During the summer, bathing houses will be provided free of charge and suits may be rented at a nominal cost. The now beach is a part of the Cambridge park system. It will be ready for use by the middle of next month...