Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...jump at night but in broad daylight or he wouldn't be writing this; the liner did not put out a lifeboat until the man had been sighted, nor would there, under any circumstances, be any point in so doing. The man -is not now married; his former wife's name is not Jeanne but Eugenia. Perhaps as you say "no one could guess why Morgan (wrong again) Hoyt should have wished to leave J:he bright (?) ship," etc., but some of them seem to have made a pretty good job of trying...
...world's records were broken in the trials: Edward Hamm of Georgia Tech broad-jumped 25 feet, 11⅛ inches; Lloyd Hahn of the Boston A. C. ran 800-metres in 1 minute, 51 seconds...
Clarence Hungerford Mackay, telegraph-cable tycoon, was ordered by the Supreme Court of New York to pay $1,000 to his onetime secretary, Miss Catherine McCabe. She had fallen down stairs in Mr. Mackay's office building at 20 Broad Street, Manhattan, in 1923, sprained her ankle. The stairway was dark at the time; hence, the damages...
...John Pierpont Morgan stood, last week, at the corner of Broad and Wall streets, Manhattan, he doubtless noted that increasing the size of the private dining room of J. P. Morgan & Co. is altering the Wall street skyline. But he had no fears that the great House of Morgan would become top-heavy, tumble. Its four stories rest on foundations built to support thirty...
...tread of a steamroller is broad and crushing. The tread of a tiger is soft, delicate but just as sure as a steamroller. It was while the Dry Democrats were nervously guarding themselves against a steamrollering from the Wet Democrats at Houston, that the representatives of Tammany Hall sidestepped what had threatened to be the one hitch of the convention, the hitch of the Prohibition plank in the party platform...