Word: broad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...critics dispute his talents. To be sure they do it reverently as befits a colossus who has been endowed with intellect, imagination, magnetism. Yet they chide him gently for banging at the piano, for sliding over details and being content too often with broad jagged splashes of color, for limited programs that have been given over and over again. Paderewski takes no notice. He never reads the reviews of his concerts. His life is his own. He sits up far into the night, practices, plays cribbage with Mme. Paderewski, stays in bed until afternoon, has lunch, makes himself ready...
Continuing his discussions with the CRIMSON on America's chances at the Olympics, Coach E. L. Farrell, University track coach said that in the field events the United States outranked the Europeans in the high jump, the pole vault, the discus throw and the broad jump...
...have all thrown the plate at least 150 feet. The best which Europe can show is the German, Hanchen's, 149 foot shot. Others are all under 146 feet. We will more than hold our own in that event," Farrell added, "and I can say the same of the broad jump...
William Phillips '00, at present minister to Canada, telegraphed as follows: "The Foreign Service of the United States has sustained a great loss in the death of Professor Coolidge. Through his immediate and intimate knowledge of the political affairs of our country his broad and sympathetic understanding of their problems and his capacity to impart his knowledge, he had become a profound inspiration to all students of international relations. The official positions which he has so ably held in the American legations in St. Petersburg and Vlenna and later in Chili, Sweden, and Northern Russia and especially in Paris during...
...There is no mistake either of fact or emphasis in the whole article. It seems in fact the perfect type of historical writing. The knowledge on which it is based is so broad and so mature that Professor Coolidge never had to stop the flow of his reader's thought by introduction of small facts as so many modern historians feel that they have to do."COOLIDGE...