Word: breadth
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Bryan Patterson, professor of Vertebrate Paleontology, yesterday praised Romer as a scientist and humanist. "He was a man at home in every area of his subject," Patterson said. "People of his breadth are becoming rare. Yet he always approached his material with the idea foremost in his mind that he was dealing with the remaans of what were once human beings...
...week was propelled through its course by public protest against the President unprecedented in its intensity and breadth. Individual Americans demanded Richard Nixon's resignation or impeachment in 275,000 telegrams that overloaded Western Union circuits in Washington. Much of the legal profession, most of organized labor and many key religious leaders joined the assault. Nearly two dozen resolutions to at least begin impeachment proceedings were introduced in the House of Representatives. At the shocked White House, even the President's loyal chief of staff, Alexander Haig, termed the conflagration "a fire storm...
...many non-science concentrators complained that the transfer also inhibits interdisciplinary work that requires research in both science and non-science volumes, and that Hilles has been weakened as an undergraduate liberal-arts library by the lack of breadth in its collection...
...council's growth in breadth and numbers has not been without problems. Though conversations with Rome have increased, the prospect of official Roman Catholic membership is remote. Evangelicals both within and outside the W.C.C. question whether it has not virtually abandoned the traditional goal of spreading the Gospel. The W.C.C. has financial troubles, too. The combination of Swiss inflation and dollar devaluations has made the American and Canadian contributions-40% of the $2,000,000 budget-worth roughly half of what they were just five years...
...Nixon could scarcely have anticipated the breadth of criticism that the speech produced. The Atlanta Constitution somewhat hyperbolically called it "one of the low points in the history of American democracy." The Boston Globe headlined a news analysis of the speech ANOTHER SUMMER RERUN. The Scripps-Howard papers, which customarily support Nixon, dismissed the speech as "regrettable, not to say disappointing," branded his policy on the tapes "a grave mistake," and added that "people with nothing to hide do not hide things." On the other hand, the New Orleans Times-Picayune, a loyal Nixon supporter, pleaded for restraint to prevent...