Word: breadth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rest of the book discusses recent decisions of the United States Supreme Court on cases affecting civil liberties. Prof. Chafee, a confessed supporter of capital and our present form of government, displays an extraordinary breadth of mind. In almost all the cases discussed, even in those arising from the famous Sacco-Vanzetti and Bimba trials, he finds that civil liberties were invaded by the powers that be. But Prof. Chafee, because he does not display the obvious prejudice of such journals as "The Nation," is very convincing. Prof. Chafee is a conservative, but he does not approve of the methods...
Modern education has devised expedients which give free rein in a large latitude to the individual fancy. The sense of community of interest among many working in several fields for a common aim favors breadth and vision...
...progress of the caravan. This, too, is as the A B C to Mr. Pyle. But only wait until the final sprint breaks loose somewhere in the vicinity of Pittsburgh, and the handful of hardy soles left cuts loose. Then will come the deluge, Syndicated throughout the length and breadth of the land will be feature stories on the great race. They will not run on back pages; they will be real news. And in the last few weeks of the procession the country will be showered with about as much information on the ranking of the runners, their vocations...
...great goals those Eastman scientists have ahead of them and toward which progress has already been made-pictures that reproduce objects in their natural colors, and that give the impression of depth as well as of height and breadth. Colored cinemas are already being shown regularly. But they are painful to watch; the colors, notably the reds, do not blend properly. Pictures giving the illusion of three dimensions have also been cast and screened. To behold them, spectators have been obliged to use special and cumbersome opera-glasses. Nonetheless, these are stages on the way to perfect photography...
...recognize an identity of subject matter that tends to be hidden by the more or less artificial barriers that separate the departments of a modern university. At the same time there is an equally strong desire to avoid the shallowness and sentimentality that are associated with what is called "breadth of view". Henry James once referred to the field of all things human and divine which was the topic of study at the Concord School of Philosophy, as "the large vague area, with its vast marginal ease...