Word: broad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Less emphasis on broad fields, especially the Social Sciences and English, and more diffusion by concentrators among the specialized sciences and humanities, are indicated by the figures on concentration released by Reginald H. Phelps, Assistant Dean in Charge of Records...
...cool early morning in autumn, New York City's Park Avenue is a quiet place to walk. Town-house curtains are drawn against the dawn; broad sidewalks are bare of people. Yawning, hotel doormen crack their white-gloved knuckles in boredom...
...School officials wish to emphasize that these lectures are not intended as more summaries of or supplements to the routine instruction of the School. The subject-matter has been so designed so as to have broad interest and value for the legal profession and the public...
...plot that swings the audience along from crack to crack without a let-down. Another element, sort of added attraction, is some thought-content,--not much, it's true, but some. The characters of Madison Breed and B. J. Wickfield are drawn on a slightly higher level than the broad, low, and beautiful plain of sex, even though they make frequent excursions downward. The girl-lead, Cindy Lou, while undergoing ordeal by hell-fire and brimstone in the process, eventually lands on the top of the heap in the final scene, showing that Miss Booth may have some surreptitious respect...
Drunk with the new wine, success, the Chinese tried another daring thrust. In broad daylight eight bombers flew 450 miles from Chungking to Hankow, where they bombed the Japanese air base. They claimed to have destroyed 50 out of 180 Japanese planes, to have returned intact. Japanese admitted that bombs had hit stores of gasoline at their air base, "causing explosions that rocked the city...