Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hearst himself has retired to his home in California to get away from all this sordid business of politics. In fact he has just telegraphed to the expectant public, through the medium of the Brooklyn "Eagle": "I am a rancher enjoying life on the high hills overlooking the broad Pacific. If you want to talk about Herefords I will talk to you,--but not politics. I have no ambition to get into politics unless there be some special reason, and I don't see any special reason...
...eligibility of Fitts makes a big difference in both the broad and high jumps. In the high-jump he is a consistent performer at 5 feet 9 inches and has done higher. In addition to Fitts, Coach Farrell will pin his faith to Morse, capable but erratic, who has done 5 feet 10 inches. Merrill is Tech's best man here with Greenough and Stanley having only bare possibilities of scoring. In the broad-jump too, Fitts is a likely point- winner but except for him this event presents a large field of mediocre ability. Dipple, Prescott, and Heap...
...Broad-Jump.--Barker, Bent, Bradlee, H. W. Clark, H. W. Davis, Dejonge, Dole, Evans, Gordon, Hamlin, Jenkins, Keyes, Merrill, Page, Park, Thayer, Wansker...
...coal strike admittedly is a tough nut to crack, but certainly it would not improve matters to plunge into another era of extravagance, resulting in an in- adequate supply of coal. The broad impersonal back of Uncle Sam looms up invitingly enough; but every indication points to complete failure if he assumes the job. At least that has been the result of every previous attempt of his and his neighbors in this direction on the American Continent
...this the college man is more prone than anyone else to go to extremes. Feeling that a university education must be essentially broad, and hence liberal, he is inclined,--in his eagerness to be what he considers broadminded,--to glorify any ideas new and different because they vary from the established order of things. Some men frankly admit that they do not want to accept conclusions from the accumulated philosophy and religion of centuries, not because they have found them to be wrong, but purely and simply because they are afraid that such conclusions will make them like everybody else...