Word: broad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Major Pierre Charles L'Enfant, a French engineer and Revolutionary War officer, was engaged as chief city-planner. Engineer L'Enfant placed the Capitol on a low eminence ever since called "The Hill." About a mile west and north he set the President's House, connecting them with a broad avenue (Pennsylvania). From the Capitol and from the President's House (later the White House) were to radiate other avenues cutting the city's network of smaller streets. A parkway or Mall was to sweep westward from the Capitol to the Potomac. Stately public buildings were to fill the triangle...
Brown in its first meet last week displayed exceptional strength in the running events, winning every one of these races in the field divisions the Bruins took the broad jump, high jump, and javelin throw, but their poor showing in the pole vault, and weight events showed the weakness of the Providence team. Captain John Collier of the Bruins, who is intercollegiate indoor hurdler, should top his event in the Stadium on Saturday, but Troy, Brown's leading dash man, will meet the strongest of competition...
Lincoln Fogarty adds to Brown's strength by his phenomenal ability in the javelin throw. He has a decided advantage over T. G. Moore '29, the foremost Crimson thrower. Carney, the leading Bruin threat in the broad jump, has been doing 23 feet lately...
...Eldridge appeared on the balcony of the Yacht Club building. The boats lined up under the railroad bridge. The Commodore fired a pistol. With a shrill spattering sound the boats streaked down the Hudson. As each passed the balcony its time was marked, because the Hudson is not broad enough for 133 little boats to start at the same time. Having fired his pistol, Commodore Eldridge motored to an airplane, flew to New York, waited for the winner. From Albany to Manhattan the Hudson River measures 132¼ mi. Railroad trains cover the distance in three hours...
...calmer moments, even Philip Snowden knows that the Empire's foreign policy is traditionally supposed to have a broad continuity whichever faction is top dog; secondly, that the Laborites did not repudiate the Balfour Note when they were in power; thirdly, that the principle laid down by Lord Balfour is now so firmly embroidered on the warp and woof of Reparations and War Debts that to dis entangle it would rend the fiscal fabric of Europe. Unwittingly, the angry pixie had given his Conservative enemies a chance to scare British voters by telling them that the Laborites...