Word: breadth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thinking of his grave on a windy hill; Rembrandt staring at his face in many mirrors; Byron, Balzac, Shakespeare; and Voltaire writing his thin and bitter curses. These, and many another, pass under Author Ludwig's swift and penetrating scrutiny. In these brief sketches there cannot be the breadth and totality of detailed biography. But there can be and there is the power and discernment that has made Author Ludwig perhaps the most able contemporary critic of great...
Former enemy peoples gave no thought to the occasion, made no beau geste to the memory of the millions they killed and maimed, showed no contriteness for the anguish and sufferings they caused to tens of millions of people throughout the length and breadth of the world. Neither did they heed the ninth anniversary of the end of their own Wartime sufferings; the bitterness of defeat lay heavily upon them...
...take 50 men (including ten scientists), many dogs and sledges and two planes, to explore the unmapped South Polar region,* which may be largely free of snow in antarctic summer months; 2) to soar over the wide jungles of Brazil, mapping mountains and rivers; 3) cruise the length and breadth of the Arabian Desert. Asked if he might not try a bird's-eye look at Mt. Everest, Commander Byrd said: "That's an interesting flight but it's not in my line...
...statement illumines the whole. The growth of Harvard to meet the demands of a country interested in education could easily mean sacrifice of standards, of that atmosphere of scholarly calm and intellectual poise, so often alien to the popular mechanics of education. Harvard has developed height as well as breadth. With more exacting requirements than ever in her history, the College of Arts and Sciences, real and necessary center of an American university, has this startling record of undergraduate fidelity to intellectual interests...
Benjamin Nathan Cardozo: Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals of New York, deeply revered for his learning and character throughout the length and breadth of the land...