Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...told that the automobile of M. Le Maréchal had crashed into a motor driven by Mlle. Godart, the daughter of M. Justin Godart, Minister of Labor and Health in the last Herriot Cabinet (TIME, June 23, 1924). He told that the scene of the crash was the broad Champs-Elyseées, where motor cars have perhaps more space in which to avoid one another than anywhere else in Paris. He meticulously read out of his notebook a list of the personal damages sustained from flying glass: Un?The derby hat of Marshal Foch pierced by a sliver. Deux?...
...Because Britain is afraid that France would renew her original intention (TIME, Dec. 21) of trying to make the conference consider every possible form of "invisible armament" (peacetime industries capable of being turned to war purposes, etc.) and so make the scope of the conference so broad that it would wallow hopelessly amid a maze of insoluble questions...
...thereupon interrupted and mentioned that, if necessary, measures for cloture (the stopping of debate so as to vote) might be taken. Vice President Dawes, who has been fighting for a better cloture rule, was in the chair, and Mr. Borah exclaimed: "I trust the Senator from Alabama observed the broad smile on the face of the Vice President." Senator Blease, whom able Democratic correspondent Frank R. Kent describes as "the supreme political patent-medicine man," was very frank in proclaiming his position : "Mr. President, something has been said about a filibuster. I do not know that I exactly understand what...
...Outlook. The editor of that publication, in a column called "Contributors' Gallery," thus summarized the importance of Mr. Seitz's position J "Don C. Seitz was for 25 years business manager of the New York World. Probably there is no man in American journalism that has as broad an experience as a journalist and as wide an acquaintance among newspaper men. He knows at first hand all phases of American life; he has, too, a historical background against which to view the present scene in its proper proportion." Now the News writer, looking for some item on which...
...improverishment of many classes of the people is seen in the large increase in the number of students who elect the so-called "bread courses," that is, studies fitting them for earning money. Before the war the majority of German students had the ambition to acquire a broad general education first of all. Today, however, most philosophical faculties show a smaller registration, while medicine, law, and political economy are overrun--the two last-named because they furnish a preparation for business life or for government positions with secure tenure, certain pay, and retirement pensions...