Word: broadest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enthusiasts will be gladdened by another bit of-news. Old Man Winter has announced a fifteen minute weekly broadest Friday night at 7.45 o'clock over WBZ and WBZA, giving snow and weather reports and other information...
...commercial prosperity to flow, illuminating the valleys, making furnace flames to kiss mountain tops, evoking sweet music from factories, preserving the American home, the schoolhouse and the dignity of labor, turns out in cold type to be so wild a collection of exaggerations and banalities as to make the broadest parody an understatement. The man who most fully exemplifies Author Wallis' conclusions regarding the proper conduct for a modern politician is Representative Hamilton Fish Jr. of New York. Passing all the tests of viewing with alarm, pointing with pride and gaining unfavorable publicity in the right places, Hamilton Fish...
Smarties' Chests. Twenty thousand Minneapolis school children marched up to Dr. Samuel Arthur Weisman a few years ago and let him measure their chests, heights, weights. Those with the broadest, flattest chests were the biggest and heaviest. Since reaching that conclusion, Dr. Weisman collected the school grades of 15,000 of the children and found that the biggest, broad-chested ones made the best grades. The narrow, pigeon-chested ones, even when they were sturdy, were the poorest students...
...Last week she took a holiday from the night club where she was appearing in the floor show with her husband, Crooner Arthur Jarrett. In group photographs of girl swimmers, Eleanor Holm Jarrett can be identified as the one with the best-looking bathing suit, the darkest fingernails, the broadest smile which, through all the vagaries of her career, has remained attractively inscribed upon her face as if it were a trademark. After playing about the pool and being photographed for three evenings, Eleanor Holm Jarrett last week finally jumped in to defend her 100-yd. backstroke championship. When...
...with the longish works, "Transitional Poem," "From Feathers to Iron," and "The Magnetic Mountain." The last is easily the best and it illustrates most nicely the sort of poetry which one may reasonably expect hereafter from Mr. Day Lewis. It is intellectual poetry, for its objectives are in the broadest sense "political." The poet has realized the gravity of the present situation, and he calls upon his contemporaries to arise to a full awareness of it. There must be no trafficking with the dead past. An advance must be made into new country, the collective society of the future...