Word: broad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then the President proceeded to draft his second appeal to Adolf Hitler, urging not only continued negotiation of the German-Czech issues but also a broad discussion, among all the powers directly interested, of questions correlated with those issues. Said President to Fuhrer: "Hundreds of millions throughout the world would recognize your action as an outstanding historic service to all humanity...
...strike the coast of Florida or the Gulf, then turn northeastward, out over the Atlantic. Last week's pit started on this route, swerved northward before it reached the coast of Florida. Off Cape Hatteras it appeared to swing northeastward but its path was blocked because an unusually broad high pressure plateau covered nearly the whole north Atlantic. Following the course of least resistance the pit swept northward into a low-pressure trough-across Long Island, through the heart of New England, into Canada, finally vanishing north of Montreal...
...timidity of business as a whole appeared best in two broad indices, the stockmarket and the volume of commercial loans. Last week the market rebounded vigorously on the news that Czechoslovakia would give in to Hitler. In two days the Dow-Jones industrial averages jumped from 134.1 to 139.2. Then came the breakdown in negotiations, and traders pulled in their necks. The news came after Eastern exchanges were closed and dumping hit the San Francisco Exchange with a rush...
...less a permanent fixture in Cambridge than Memorial Hall or the Lampoon's annual wheeze about Freshman advisers is David Dickinson '20, the big man with the broad brimmed hat, who for fifteen years has on fair days followed the fire engines in a red three-wheeled contraption that looks like a cross between a kiddie-car and a barber's chair...
...appeared a photograph of Johnson. "It's all about you!" shouted Magnuson. Reluctantly, Secretary Johnson took the copy, glanced at the cover and frowned. "Is it favorable?" "Very favorable, sir," replied the Congressman. While reporters & cameramen watched, Secretary Johnson, still frowning, riffled the pages, gradually broke into a broad grin (see cut) as he read TIME'S story on the War Department...