Word: breadth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jail, fire chiefs and prosecutors made Driscoll print his name, dictated sentences, compared the printing to the threat notes of 1931-32. Driscoll twitched, squirmed, finally burst into a babble of confession. For four days he gushed about his crimes, drove with fire officials the city's length & breadth, pointing out plants he had fired. When he was talked out, flabbergasted officials tallied up 125 fires, $1,000,000 losses...
Encourage Breadth of Outlook...
There is a general agreement on the Faculty, however, that "The purpose of distribution is to encourage breadth of outlook and an acquaintance with certain subjects of fundamental value not represented in the field of concentration." It is understood that a special detailed statement will be officially issued later telling of the advantages of distribution...
...Hospital, one of the assistants of Professor Thomas Wingate Todd, Western Reserve University's anthropologically minded anatomist, marches in with calipers and measuring tape. She measures the baby from head to foot- feet, shins, thighs; hands, forearms, arms; feet to crest of head, rump to top of head; breadth and depth of head. The baby may wriggle and mew but willy-nilly he is one more mannikin in a long, laborious, illuminating research...
...board dial guides you so accurately to the broadcasting station that if a balloon were sent up from it on a string you would cut the string in half, flying blind. By taking cross-bearings on two broadcasting stations you can determine your position to a hair's breadth...