Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sockeye salmon were coming home from roaming the Pacific Ocean. Now the silver traffic swarmed in millions into Juan de Fuca Strait and up the broad Fraser River. It was the biggest run in four years...
...literary interests are as broad as those of a good-sized college faculty. He has written fiction, biography (Bret Harte), popular meteorology (Storm), a fascinating treatise on U.S. place names (Names on the Land). His latest book is a rambling, unconventional history of the Life & Times...
Like Frankie, Jean latches on to a microphone as if it had gender. There the resemblance ends. Jean is middling tall, broad-shouldered, has a mechanical grin and a thick shrub of mustache, through which he filters a vibrant baritone like the late Russ Columbo...
...Others were on the market, with more to come. Their value as weeders depended upon their selectivity. They did not kill all plants alike, but only certain types. For instance, 2,4-D did not kill plants, such as wheat, which are related to the grasses. It did kill broad-leaved plants like bindweed...
...John Batterson Stetson, the sickly son of a New Jersey hatter, joined an expedition to Pike's Peak for his health. On the trip he startled his companions by scraping fur off raw hides, chewing it up, spitting the juice through his teeth to produce crude felt. The broad-brimmed beaver hat that he made with the felt was the butt of all the camp's jokes. But on the way back Stetson sold it to a St. Louis bullwhacker for $5 in gold, thereupon decided to go into business...