Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There seems no reasons why small airplanes should not ultimately be able to land with safety on tennis courts or even on broad city streets. But they cannot do it yet. To advertise an Air Carnival at Mitchel Field, L. I., Lieutenant Edwin Johnson obtained permission from the New York City authorities to land on Riverside Drive near Grant's tomb. His plane, the Speery Messenger, flew down under ideal conditions, but a skid on slippery asphalt caused a collision of plane and lamp post with damage to both. Still, the aviator flew back to Mitchel Field that same...
...unrest exists there is certain. If the Filipino has read his appear he should have found valuable precedents i Ireland India, Spain and Germany, and even Oklahoma. Perhaps armed and noisy brawls are contagious; and having become fevered there with, the people have taken General Wood as a good broad mark at which to let fly. Whatever may be the rights and wrongs of the matter, the Philippine Legislature appears to have asked for the Governor general's recall...
Field events: putting the shot, throwing the javelin, pole vaulting, running high jump, running broad jump, throwing the hammer and throwing the discus...
...William Wilkinson, "the Bishop of Wall Street": "For years I have conducted open-air services in the shadow of the great banking houses. Last week I was run down by a taxicab and was taken to the Broad Street Hospital...
...culmination, there was Strauss's dance of Salome, To him who has not heard this music, it seems inconceivable that the rather boisterous and broad humorist of "Tiel Eulenspiegel" or the Strong Superman of "Heldenleben" should be able even to approximate the essentially un-Teutonic, Wilde quality. That voluptuousness would seem hardly to be appreciated by an essentially broad and virle race; its subtleties would seem not for them. One hearing of the dance of Salome is convincing, however; rarely not even in the Tannhauser Bacchanale, has such voluptuousness been distilled into music...