Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despite the pronounced mannish tendencies of the late Dr. Mary Walker, modern Washingtonians have perhaps been inclined to consider the capital comparatively free from advocates of secentric dress. But they have not yet dined with Senator Brookhart of Iowa. Shrugging his broad shoulders contemptuously at custom, precedent, and style, he insists on informality at any cost. "If I am asked to the White House," he says, "or to any other state occasion. I shall go as I am, with cowhide shoes and the clothes I wear on the farm." It is thought that the shoes, of a rich ochre tint...
...Harriman's career. First, a spectacular rise; second, reverses, foes, almost defeat; finally, triumph and death. Mr. Garrett has written many articles about Wall Street. What private sources of information he may have had access to is not known. But the book in general follows the broad lines of the great railroader's generally known career...
...encyclical (Pascendi Dominici) which emphasized the central Catholic idea of Authority. Abbe Loisy in France, Father Tyrrell in England, and Father Zahm in America were promptly excommunicated. Whether or not the Vatican has merely scotched the snake, modernism (in the " dangerous " sense) is not now visible within its broad domains. Hilaire Belloc, brilliant Catholic now visiting America, tells the world it needs Authority, which means dogma personified by the Pope. G. K. Chesterton was converted to Roman Catholicism because of its reasonableness : " Dogma is a friend to religion...
...paper, many banks invested their funds in Liberty Bonds to an unusual extent. The present expansion of trade and advance in commodity prices have led to increased mercantile borrowings from banks, which are now beginning to sell their Liberties to accommodate their depositors. The market for Liberties is too broad to reflect this bank selling by violent fluctuations, and it has been discernible only in their gradual fractional decline. Liberties at present prices are now in more direct competition with other tax-free State and Municipal issues...
Yesterday afternoon 22 men participated in the broad jump, the first event of the annual Winter Carnival, held in the baseball cage at Soldiers Field. The winner was C. A. C. Eastman '24 who, with an allowance of 3 1-2 feet, had a total jump of 21 feet 3 inches. This was one inch more than the best effort of S. B. Jones '26 and O. V. Wederbrand '25, each of whom had a handicap of 2 feet, and were tied for second place. The other men in the finals finished in the following order: A. J. Bronstein...