Word: broad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fair, again showed that he knows remarkably well how to handle Britons. The usual sort of Frenchman would almost certainly have demanded an immediate vote, and in so doing he would have been well within France's juridical rights. Instead, towering M. Flandin rose to say with a broad-minded casual mien worthy of Squire Baldwin himself: "I have too much sense of courtesy, even toward Germany, not to accept Herr von Ribbentrop's suggestion. I propose therefore that we do not vote until the afternoon session...
...Grant. Like his contemporaries in the service, Longstreet served in the Mexican War. By the time the Civil War started he had settled down in the paymaster department. His experience and his massive self-confidence started him off in the Confederate Army as a brigadier-general. "Six feet tall, broad as a door, hairy as a goat," Longstreet was compact of ambition and stubbornness. The first summer's campaign showed that he was a first-rate defensive fighter but unaggressive and slow on the attack...
...British ships within range of League-defying Germany. Yet it was Mr. Baldwin who not two years ago solemnly declared that, for defensive purposes, Britain's frontier is now the Rhine (TIME, Aug. 13, 1934). In all parts of Germany correspondents reported Nazis spontaneously boasting with broad grins: "Well we have crossed the 'British frontier' of Herr Baldwin - the Rhine...
...impotent football team hardly that. The student body is small, 473, serious-minded, mostly preprofessional, with no mind for such collegiate capers as hazing and freshman caps. Under much the same system introduced by President Hutchins at University of Chicago, a Hopkins collegian spends his first two years in broad cultural study, may then pursue a specialty to a Bachelor's Degree or shortcut a year by starting at once after his M. A. or Ph. D. Only Hopkins change which President Bowman has so far proposed is to give his undergraduates some contact with the scholar-professors...
Erwin Piscator is best known as the onetime head of Berlin's great Volksbuehne (People's Theatre), which boasted the incredible total of 250,000 subscribers. A Communist, Piscator fled Germany when the Nazis took over, now carries on his broad theatrical experimentation in the U.S.S.R. Case of Clyde Griffiths bears the Piscator stamp, offers U. S. theatregoers for the first time a comprehensive idea of an entirely new set of values he is trying to bring to the stage...