Word: broad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Seniors and ten Juniors made up the 16 who returned as lettermen: 440, Francis R. King '39, and James D. Lightbody, Jr. '40; mile, Roswell Brayton '39, and Eugene V. Clark '40; two mile, William P. Tuttle, Jr. '40; hurdles, John MacL. Johanson '39, and Mason Fernald '40; broad-jump, F. Rockwell Hollands...
...Wolfe pack lives mostly on aristocratic East Broad Street, pays little attention to Columbus society. Fifteen miles outside the city is the famed "Wigwam," which the Wolfes also share in common- a big wooded tract dotted with rustic lodges, a reception hall, movie theatre, swimming pool. Here Wolfes and their families gather in complete privacy for wholesome fun. Parties at the Wigwam sometimes run to several hundred guests. Herbert Hoover has been there often; so have Alf Landon, Frank Knox, Michigan's Senator Vandenberg...
Looking forward to his legislative program for the next Congress President Roosevelt last week also turned his thoughts to Housing. He told his press conference† that four phases of his broad Housing program were now functioning effectively: Home Owners' Loan Corp., to save small mortgaged properties for their owners; Slum Clearance, which has been taken up by almost all large U. S. cities; USHA, which finances new tenements for people who can afford not more than $5 per room per month; Federal Housing Administration, which finances home owners who can afford $10 per room per month...
Today, short stocky Dr. Kelly, with his fuzzy head, broad white mustache and scarred cheeks (he was treated with radium for cancer of the face), is a familiar figure on Baltimore streets. In his lapel he wears a pink rose, sent fresh by an admiring friend four times a week. Below the rose is a large blue campaign button bearing a red question mark. As he meets his friends Dr. Kelly presents them with small reprints from the New Testament, saying, "Here's my card," and when strangers question him about his interrogating button, he invariably asks: "What...
...Into the broad bay of Beirut, on whose shores St. George is said to have slain his dragon, among the dirty fishing feluccas off Genoa and Leghorn, past the ruined English mole into Tangier, into Oran and Salonika and Jaffa and many another exotic port, push a string of fat-bellied, black-hulled, matter-of-fact ships with extravagantly alliterative names (examples: Excalibur, Exochorda, Exeter, Excambion). Most have proud six-foot letters on their hulls - AMERICAN EXPORT LINES. Their fore-and after-kingposts, surrounded by a cluster of loading booms like umbrella ribs, point ambitiously...