Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...temporary chairmanship of U.N.'s Atomic Energy Commission, Baruch prefaced his proposals with a touching passage: "I was moved," he said, "in the afternoon - shall I say, in the late afternoon - of my life, to add my effort to gain the world's quest, by the broad mandate under which we were created" (the January resolution of the U.N.'s General Assembly passed in London). He said: "All of us are consecrated to making an end of gloom and hopelessness. It will not be an easy job. The way is long and thorny, but supremely worth traveling...
While the U.N. has been pondering the question whether Francisco Franco is or is not a gangster (see INTERNATIONAL), the Generalissimo has been trying in various ways to prove he is no such thing. In Madrid last week, with Franco's broad-minded consent, a book of memoirs by Carlton J. H. Hayes, U.S. Ambassador to Spain from 1942 to the end of 1944, was published in Spanish translation...
...Army's Japanese farms will be divided into five-acre plots, ridged with about 90 concrete growing basins. Washed gravel fills them to give anchorage for growing plants. Down the troughlike basins (they slope gently, are graduated in three broad steps) floods chemically charged water, two or three times a day. In hydroponic farming the irrigating water is loaded with soluble salts of every specific chemical needed, and thus may be superior to any natural soil, for few soils contain all the essentials for vigorous plant growth...
...little Japanese Presbyterian with a broad smile and bad eyesight toured the U.S. in 1936, speaking to packed halls on Christianity and consumer cooperatives. For the hundreds of thousands who heard him, Toyohiko Kagawa sounded like a saintly social worker and symbolized the best of Christianized Nippon...
Accompanying him on the 80-day aerial odyssey will be his wife, who could have been another to belie Billy Rose's recent broad generalization since she is both a Vassar alumna and an ex-Powers model...