Word: broad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among God's gifts to the Divisionals-ridden Senior are survey books,--volumes with broad, comprehensive treatments of the whole subject, outlines which bring out of the obscurity of "periods" a unit which may be viewed for perhaps the first time as such. ENGLISH LITERATURE IN ITS FOREIGN RELATIONS (1300-1800). By Lourie Magnus, E. P. Dutton, New York, 1927, $3.), is a recent and adequate attempt to fulfill this need. Mr. Magnus is especially interested in Continental influences on English Literature. He treats the subject completely and in a scholarly fashion. The result is a valuable addition...
Clarence Dillon, Wall Street banker who flings a swift & broad flail in his financial harvestings,* struck twice against litigation, according to two complaints lodged last week in Manhattan against him. One was that he had created an asbestos trust, the other that he had not given a _go-be-tween sufficient commission in an oil deal...
...Another suggestion that I would make is that the candidates on the ballots be reduced to the smallest possible number. If the field is so broad and unrestricted that the winner has less than half the votes to his credit, the result is not very convincing...
...horned toad is not a toad, nor a frog. It is a lizard, a reptile, which through the ages has developed a broad, squat, warty body. It looks like a batrachian, save for its short, sharp tail. Horned toads run; they do not hop. They breathe by means of lungs, not through the skin. Frogs and regular toads can breathe through the skin. Horned toads (i.e. lizards) are of a higher form of life than are batrachians...
...Running broad jump--23 ft., 1 1-8 in. W. A. Dowling, Georgetown, March...