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Word: broadly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Oxford one is constantly reminded of the nearness of the country. From my college window I have a view unspoilt by houses: ahead of me stretches the broad green sweep of the Christ Church Meadows, broken by the tall noble trees bordering the Broad Walk, and far beyond them is the Isis. In the fields I often see horses grazing; it is a country view...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OXFORD'S SCENERY LAUDED BY CORRY | 1/4/1929 | See Source »

Sapeloe is one of the southern chain of American sea-islands mentioned in Icelandic sagas of the loth century as part of Huitramanaland or Great Ireland. Portuguese sailors supplied data for a map which showed the islands in 1502. The Spanish arrived in 1512 and called the broad-beached land they found the "Golden Islands." It was from one of their missions, San José de Zapalo, that Sapeloe's name is derived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Sapeloe | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

...Imperial Family who have enough to buy the few things we want. I write books, and now I lecture. I teach not a religion but Spirituality that is in all religions. Every one! But especially in the Russian-the Greek Orthodox Church-that is so flexible, so broad that every Russian can understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Three Grand Dukes | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

Peculiar was the trifling 600-lb. plane tested at Akron, Ohio, last week by Vearne Clifton Babcock, designer. Wings taper from narrow tips to broad bases at the fuselage. The fuselage is slim, rudder and stabilizers small. The motor is a 65 h. p. midget radial, built by the Le Blond Aircraft Engine Corp. of Cincinnati. At the machine's centre of gravity is the cockpit with two seats side by side. That location of the cockpit helps maneuver the machine, Designer Babcock found in his tests. The plane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Small Plane | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

...Carl Ben Eielson, last week, discovered that Graham Land is separate from the Antarctic continent. Between them is an ice-covered strait. Graham Land itself seems to be fringed with an archipelago. Between a great plateau to its north and a double mountain chain to its south is a broad expanse of white, which may indicate a valley or another strait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Wilkins' Discovery | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

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