Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nets on the sides of the ship, with conspicuous lack of dignity, when a plane is about to alight. The getaway of an airplane is easy. But landing on the deck of the steaming war-vessel, pitching and rolling as it must, is a risky proposition. The deck looks broad to any one standing on it, but it is a mere strip to the anxious pilot. As the wheels of the airplane touch the landing surface, the pilot drops a large hook which engages with wires laid across the deck so as to secure a quick stop, smaller hooks engage...
...steadily increasing in popular favor: 1) A constitutional amendment to require a 6-3 decision of the Supreme Court to overrule acts of Congress. 2) Senator Borah's proposed amendment requiring a 7-2 decision to overrule an act of Congress. 3) A constitutional amendment which will broadly recognize the right of States and of Congress to exercise their "police power" for social justice. The third proposal, a blanket amendment, would make unnecessary a new amendment for every new piece of social legislation. Many believe the provisions of the Constitution are broad enough now to permit legislation making...
...Grand Guignol (Paris) program includes a horror play The Crucified, and a broad farce The New Below, both of which have scored enormous successes. The Grand Guignol Theatre is known all over the world as the most spine-chilling chamber of theatrical horrors in existence. Every known variety of human agency is depicted by the Guignol players with blood-curdling realism...
...intimate knowledge of the locality and her undeniable powers of description have united to make the veldt of Rhodesia live before our eyes. We can see the drab, ramsrackle villages; the deserted mines; the winding, dusty roads. We begin to understand the peculiar fascination which lies in the broad, barren stretches of desert country--a fascination which grips all who make their dwelling there...
...yesterday's events no man placed more than once in the four positions which counted toward the score. D. J. Quirk '26, with a leap of 20 feet 4 1-2 inches, won the broad jump for the Reds, and his team-mate, C. A. C. Eastman '24, placed first in the shotput with a heave of 39 feet 6 inches. For the Whites L. K. Marshall 5E.S. and H. R. Davis '23 won first place in the hammer throw and pole vault respectively. The distance in the former was 139 feet 11 inches, and the height in the latter...