Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Crown Prosecutor R. B. Graham of Winnipeg advocated " a spanking machine, which would have instruments varying from a broad paddle to a cat-of-nine-tails and so geared as to be administered with different degrees of severity ... to take the place of jail sentences for first offenders under the Criminal Code...
Hamlin Garland, broad-shouldered, powerful, with his mass of iron-gray hair, is one of the gayest and yet most dignified of our older men of letters. He has the faculty of understanding and being interested in the moderns, mixed with a splendid detachment that is unusual. His two autobiographical volumes form, I suppose, one of the classics of our age. His novels, sketches and stories are filled with rugged beauty and the spirit of adventure...
...southeast corner of Wall and Broad streets, however, there is a low, massive building with no label at all. Over its door one sees " 23 Wall Street"?that is all. Not to know it, however, argues yourself unknown, for this is the office of J.P. Morgan...
...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 by a writer " le Paddock feminin" (a reference to Sprinter Paddock of California). America's " Paddock feminin " is Helen Filkey of Chicago. On her home heath open events for women were listed in the schedule...
...Decathlon: H. M. Osborne, Illinois A. C., 7350.11 points. ¶1220-yard dash for women: E. E. Edwards, England, 27 sec. ¶ High jump for women: Katherine Lee, Chicago, 4 ft. 10% in. ¶Broad jump for women: Helen Filkey, Chicago, 16 ft. 6% in. ¶1440-yard relay for women: Eastern team of Misses McCartie, Adams, Kirk, Fisher...