Word: broad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Able Newsman Walter Duranty, long-time correspondent in Russia for the New York Times, who early this month traveled down the broad Volga, left the river often to visit the interior of the great grain provinces of Samara, Kazan and Saratov. He noted no undue disturbances or signs of starvation and reported last week: "The harvest, instead of fair to medium, may be distinctly above the average if the weather remains favorable. The advocates of rationing claim that . . . it plays a useful role in the socialization policy which the Kremlin is now pushing so actively...
...noon one day last week President Hoover walked solemnly from the Cabinet Room through the short passage to his own office. Behind him came a small procession of House and Senate leaders. The President seated himself at his broad desk, hitched his chair closer, reached out and drew to him a document labeled...
...Broad Jumn. W. J. Sartain, C.: W. Rovse...
...means that the authorities of Harvard College believe that the one senior has obtained a better education than the other senior. But with the existing inequalities among the departments it is not always true that the senior who is given a degree has obtained a better education (in the broad sense of the word) than the senior from whom a degree is withheld. Thus the system may frequently do a grave injustice to a senior, only because he has chosen the harder path...
...Englishmen registered times and distances in their Stamford Bridge meet which were disappointing, and below expectations. Nevertheless Sartain of Cambridge broad jumped 22 feet, 8 1-2 inches and his team mate R. W. Evans was but two inches short of the mark. Green of Cambridge ran the mile in 4 minutes, 22 1-5 seconds, and Guttteridge of Cambridge was clocked in 1 minute, 57 1-5 seconds for the half mile. J. M. Pumphrey of Oxford ran three miles in 14 minutes, 59 seconds, while F. W. Teitcherine of Cambridge was just over 59 seconds for the quarter...