Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last 26 years, bubonic plague has spread east and west from India in a broad belt which now encircles the globe on both sides of the equator, roughly bounded by the 35th parallels of latitude. In Europe it is prevalent as far north as the 45th parallel, but in the Western Hemisphere it has appeared sporadically only in the large cities of the Gulf and Pacific Coasts. It is essentially a disease of the Tropics. Within this belt no preventive measures have been able to stamp it out. Further to the north or south it has failed to spread, whether...
...points to 51/2 According to the English custom only first places counted in the scoring. Out of six meets in the series the English universities have won three and the American three. H. M. Abrahams, Cambridge captain, won three points for the British team by taking first in the broad jump, the 100 and the 220 yard dashes. Tevis Huhn, Princeton graduate, won the low hurdles for the Englishmen giving them the one point margin of victory...
Wills, of San Francisco, arrived in Manhattan looming broad, rugged and four inches taller than last year. Miss Wills was accompanied by her mother and the Illinois State title (won in love sets). She retired at once to Forest Hills, where she will polish her strokes for her coming campaign...
...Staatsburg, N. Y., skeleton and full regalia of a Munsee Indian Chief. 2) In Harlan County, Ky., by University scientists and a 14-year-old mountain girl, skeletons of 9 primitive Indians. 3) In the Burton Mound, Santa Barbara, Cal., remains of a race with remarkable tooth development ? broad incisors like horses, and no cavities. 4) At Warehouse Point, Conn., bones of an Indian of large stature. 5) On the Wet River, Arkansas, implements of a vanished race with arts of weaving and carving. 6) At Pueblo Bonito, New Mexico, a great prehistoric com- munity dwelling, by the National...
...sort of securities which it allowed to be sold upon its floor. Accordingly another security market became necessary, where issues not " listed on the Exchange " could be dealt in. This need was supplied during the Civil War by an open-air market which assembled daily in Broad Street, and which, with its finger signals and turbulent excitement, was for years one of the sights of New York. Because of its open-air character, this " Curb Market," as it came to be called, utterly lacked the severe disciplinary regulation for which the Stock Exchange was noted, and while economically an essential...