Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...other events held yesterday, Berry of Pennsylvania won the broad-jump with a leap of 20 feet seven and three-quarters inches, and Bennett of Illinois, with a throw of 141 feet nine and one-half inches, placed first in the hammer-throw. White, by placing third in this event, was the only man to score twice, for Blanchard failed to win a place...
...Athletic Association this spring, beside the informal sports that have been planned. Entry blanks have been sent to all the prominent preparatory schools in Massachusetts. The events will include the 100, 220, and 440-yard dashes; 880-yard run, one and two-mile runs, running high and broad jumps, and the pole-vault. The prizes will consist of gold, silver and bronze medals, which will be given to the winners of first, second and third places...
...sufficient to keep a laugh-hungry audience busy for a full evening. This deficiency has evidently been noticed by the sponsors of the play, so they have sought to hide it under a copiousness of suggestive references, which brings howls from a student audience, but hardly compensate even Mr. Broad-Minded Listener. He smiles, of course, but always wondering whether it is with or at the players...
...messages serve to remind us of our faith. The truth of our democracy has been challenged. We go to fight for the preservation of that liberty, equality and fraternity which is the basis of our national creed, and for that broad, un-grasping English tolerance on which our liberties rest...
...consider that the standards of judgment here are aristocratic. There is a clean and healthy tendency to regard men for their accomplishments, and the opportunity for accomplishment is open to every man. Can one find in any other group of men outside of the college world such broad-minded democracy...