Word: broad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...humor, just as important in art as in daily life. Beethoven never tears a passion to tatters, never protests too much, can be serious and truly impressive without becoming solemn or pontificial. Before Beethoven, music had been practically limited to the expression of joy and sorrow in a broad sense of these terms. With his inborn whimsicality and with his philosophy, akin to that of Shakspere, that nothing is more deadly than to take ourselves too seriously, Beethoven developed in music the spirit of fantastic humor...
...grave danger of miscarrying. The courts, they thought, had perhaps been honest, had adhered to every rule and precedent, had obeyed the letter of the law to the end of the alphabet. But the very safeguards of the individual in this case, it seemed, had rendered justice in the broad sense impossible. Turning from the impotent courts, the advocates of Massachusetts justice--that part of them who thought it in danger--appealed to the executive branch to save the judiciary from itself...
...itineraries have been so arranged that every individual will make both a broad survey and a special investigation. The whole delegation will spend about ten days in Leningrad and Moscow and then break up into smaller groups for five weeks special study in the provinces...
...quarter in 51 seconds and the Dorches for High quarter turned in a fast 1 minute 35 seconds for the half. Other outstanding performances were a 100 in 10 2-5 seconds by Trull of Lowell, a mark of 20 feet 7 inches by Crigas, of Brockton in the broad jump, and a height of 5 feet 10 3 8 inches in the high jump achieved by Chalmers of Medford High...
...Wakely furnished further surprise by turning in a mark of 1 minute 56 3-5 seconds in the half which was the best time in this event registered during the afternoon Dowding, last year's broad jump champion, was the only title holder to be forced out of the competition without reaching the second...