Word: broader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week women athletes ran faster, leaped higher and broader than ever before in modern times. At the Oxo Sport Grounds, near London, were held the first English women's national track championships. Miss E. W. Edwards dashed 220 yards in 27 seconds, a world's record. Miss Mary Lines again stood out as Europe's, if not the world's, leading woman track star by winning her four events-100-yard dash, 440-yard dash, 120-yard hurdles, running broad jump. At Brussels she once before conquered four fields in one day and was dubbed...
...address of welcome, Mayor Curley lamented the " growth away from idealism" in the United States, and rejoiced in the gathering of so much youthful idealism as was represented by the Young People's Union. Leaders of the convention stressed the following points: World Court, international youth alliance, broader interest in clean industry and politics, prohibition, missions, tithing for church finances...
...Princton degree will " be evidence that the graduate will not only have covered a broader field of knowledge as required by the student in general, he will also have mastered the fundamental of one subject and will have developed habits of independent thought and study." The new program applies to junior and senior years only...
...society has, I believe, filled a need in the life of the school, and next year, under the new regime, much more should be done. If the school finally obtains the dormitory which it needs very much, certain broader aspects of the work of the society may be emphasized, and discussion groups or religious gatherings may be held more often than they...
...world's history, in order that a succeeding epoch may strike a balance between two extremes. On the other hand, it is more than possible that we are nearer the truth today than in any other period of the world's history; if this be true, then the broader our view of past ages the more likely we shall be to recognize the truth of our own day when we meet it. It is well, there- fore, that a college such as Harvard offer to its students a few fields of "concentration"--but not too many--designed primarily to survey...