Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Results were speedy. The city's clergy unanimously voted an investigation. Police Commissioner Herbert A. Wilson issued broad denials. Massachusetts' Governor Frank G. Allen ordered his Attorney-General to take "right and proper" action. The article, by Walter W. Liggett, was called "Bawdy Boston." Its charges, stretching over the past decade, were specific...
...Senate, northwestern Senators swung to the support of the Federal Farm Board, flayed the private commission men as "gamblers." A rush of denials of trouble flowed from Farm Board Chairman Alexander Legge, Mr. Barnes, Chicago and Minneapolis grain men. From the White House came a broad hint that President Hoover would support his farm board chairman sooner than his business committee chairman in this controversy...
...Serbia. In 1916 he occupied Rumania. In 1917 he smashed the Russian armies, opened the way to the Black Sea. Only the collapse of the Western Front and the Armistice stopped him. Though a Feldmarschall, he never wore a general's uniform and pickelhaube (spiked helmet) but always the broad black fur cap of the Death's Head Hussars, whose colonel-in-chief he was. He never, even for the sake of camouflage, rode anything but the whitest of horses. Unlike Ludendorff, who now is going crazy, he never proclaimed himself a God-inspired military genius, or even took personal...
Whittling out duck decoys first gave Chris Smith the idea for a motorboat that would be short, broad, flat so as to ride on top of the water instead of cutting through it. This revolutionary design, now largely used in speed boats, produced the first boats to make 60 m. p. h. in a contest. In designing his early boats, Chris Smith used no blue prints. Instead, he carved out a small wooden model of the hull. With this in his pocket he went to nearby Walpole Island, picked out a likely looking tree for his boat, and carefully watched...
Record and F. J. Mardulier '30 are the star hurdlers who are working out, and Rowe is a consistently good broad jumper...