Word: broad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...future generation and that because of their training there will not be any such catastrophe as the World War, in which millions of men were killed? If Reader Knapp can recall 365 good deeds, in any year during his boyhood, he surely would be more broad-minded than he is today...
Delegates. Some 500 church dignitaries faced the pulpit of Lausanne's 11th Century cathedral- comfortable British bishops; intense Scandinavians; placid Chinamen; square-fingered Germans; bearded, broad-browed, wise-eyed patriarchs from Russia, Greece, Palestine; neat Americans-representatives of some 90 sects in 49 nations. There was one notable absentee; the Roman Catholic Church had declined to be represented, regarding itself as already the united church, infallible. A German and an Austrian prelate, however, sat by to "observe" for the Vatican...
...result, when the Reliance crossed the Artie circle into that portion of the globe where the sun never sets in June, July and Au gust, the Germans were able to snore comfortably through nights of broad daylight; but U. S. passengers who had not "practiced," found themselves so persistently wakeful that many were up and doing day and night for almost a week...
...rusty-haired, broad-freckled son of a Manhattan banker spends many of his young days on his father's commodious estate in the north woods. He is much with guides and backwoods farmers?Scotsmen, French-Canadians, half-breed Indians. He grows up a strong young adept at their life with ax, rod, gun, canoe. Their children are his playmates and he, after attending Princeton University, is not convinced that some dainty creature from Philadelphia or New York would make him as good a wife as Lena Wilson, the stocky daughter of his mother's north-woods cook...
...Vienna, all was peaceful down the broad, leafy boulevards. But at the Central Cemetery, the Super-Reporter found a scene worthy of his typewriter. He mentally jotted down a neat phrase?"a mass burial for men and women who died in a mass movement"?and squared off to gather the scene's color and emotion...