Word: breadth
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...windows in the original plan. The four projecting balconies at the corners thus appear as towers, 21 feet square, rising above the main roof, those fronting on the speedway being made square instead of bowed as before. The float will extend the length of the building at a uniform breadth...
...Yale stroke has been made this year. The former custom of following the body swing with a leg drive has been replaced by the simultaneous action of both leg and body. The body swing and the slide have been shortened, and a sharper, more snappy stroke has resulted. The breadth of the oars has been increased in the first boat to 7 1-4 inches, and in the second boat to 6 1-2 inches from 6 inches last year. The new cedar shell made by Ruddock of New York has arrived and will be used in the Annapolis race...
...grasp of these subjects, and a hold upon the living world, which no amount of reading could have supplied. It had cultivated his powers of thinking and of presenting his thoughts in a clear, orderly, and convincing manner, and had exercised and developed his natural gifts--coolness of judgment, breadth of view, and temperance in expression...