Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...passengers, one Peter Kanevaros of Jaffersonville, Ind. While the gentleman from Indiana was bobbing up and paddling back to the plane, Pilot Dinsmore quickly instructed his remarkably calm companions. They broke a cabin window and chopped a hole in the roof. They took posts on the broad wings and fuselage as they were told, distributing weight as evenly as possible to help the fabric keep them afloat. They were a little scared. The ship's heavy engines were taking her down nose first...
...course of two years of such (and other sorts of) graduate study, I have never yet failed to find in any graduate student a similar spark of rebellion against some of this "arid scholarship". Even the "sorriest" of the lot had rather that the desert were not quite so broad, nor so dry.--Many such students die of thirst, and many turn back. But there are always some who see "the sense of going further," and who have the mental courage to go, believing that the knowledge and discipline gained are worth the while...
...term "objects of artistic merit" is used in a broad sense, to embrace painting, sculpture, prints, drawings, pottery, glassware, textiles, brassware, pewter bronzes and ironwork. Although the objects submitted will be subject to approval, any articles having intrinsic art value will be accepted. As this is the first exhibit of the kind, there are no established traditions, and students may hesitate to offer their cherished bits, for this reason, it is asked that it be understood that the actual market prices, if such there be for works of art, have no bearing on the value for the exhibit...
...factory where cigars are made by hand, the journeyman cigarmaker sits at a smooth bench, a mold board of many grooves close at hand. An apprentice brings up a bundle of tobacco leaves from the cool, dark storage basement. The journeyman, with quick, accurate slashes, cuts a broad leaf on the bias into strips adequate for the cigar wrapper. Then some long filler, a slide of the flattened palm, and the cigar is made. He fastens the loose wrapper end with some glue, places the cigar in a mold groove. Later comes trimming, boxing, and finally sealing with the internal...
...letter H, allowing for future expansion. It will occupy the large plot of ground north of the College Green. The main structure, capped by a great tower, reminiscent of Independence Hall, will face the campus, while the west wing will look towards the Vermont Hills and end the broad mall extending to the Connecticut river...