Word: breadth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...project is intended to help alleviate this shortage by increasing the number of able teachers" who have "breadth of outlook" and "excellence of professional training...
...signal is not a cure-all, and in this case would not justify the expense of its installation, because it ignores the special characteristics of the De Wolf Street corner as well as failing to remedy the basic origin of danger. It is the breadth of the intersection that is the underlying cause of mishaps which occur there. There is no clearly defined point of entry for cars to move on to Memorial Drive, and it is possible for vehicles to continue from De Wolf Street onto the Drive without slackening speed but utilizing the full expanse of the corner...
...faith itself. But he would be a singularly non-partisan Preacher who could help men to achieve a faith other than, or perhaps opposed to, his own. There are a few churchmen (Reinhold Niebuhr has been invoked many times in these discussions) who can be said to have this breadth of mind, but there are very few, and hence it is exceedingly doubtful that one could be found to come to Harvard...
...Manhattan gallery had 35 Rubens oils on exhibition last week-enough to hint at the height and breadth of his genius. For all its size, Rubens' genius was not deep in any spiritual sense: the pagan gods he painted were muscular and gay, his goddesses fat and sassy; his Christs were muscular and mild, his Madonnas magnificently maternal. A hearty, happy man, Rubens filled them all with the hot blood and gusty breath of life...
...Illinois Central was celebrating its 100th anniversary. All along its 6,543 miles of track between Chicago and New Orleans, the same tumult of bells and whistles broke loose on the "Main Line of Mid-America." The Illinois Central had plenty to toot about. It dominated the length & breadth of the Mississippi Valley-which Alexis de Tocqueville had called "the most magnificent dwelling place prepared by God for man's abode." The Central had opened up the dwelling place...