Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under a clouded sky, 80 guests relaxed on wicker chairs and awaited the beginning of Madame Elanora Garnett's first postwar fashion show. Gathered on the broad, springy lawn of Madame's plushy home were leading lights of Shanghai's international set. The wife of a U.S. oil company manager came confidently attired in a new spring suit; an icy Russian brunette sat like a Raphael Madonna in a startling blue turban...
...program of concentration, which includes six courses for distribution of general education and ten courses giving broad coverage and concentration in the area of the physical sciences, will be open to those who enter the College in the academic year 1946-1947 and later...
Pirnie, who was sidelined with ankle trouble, holds the Harvard record for the 220 of 21.3 seconds which he set on May 30, 1941. He will not run the 220 this afternoon, though; he will be seen in the 100 and the broad jump. Withington pulled a muscle who weeks ago in the stadium and has been taking it easy ever since. He is slated to run in the quarter mile. Wharton will appear in the low hurdles...
Pete Harwood cleared 12 feet 6 inches in the pole vault, although 12 feet would have been sufficient. Owen Torrey, of Harvard took second, clearing the bar at 11:6, wile the Crimson's Howard and the Purple's Calabrese tied for third a 11 feet. The broad jump, held underneath the sands, was won by Benesch of Rhode Island, who lept 20 feet, 11 1/3 inches to beat out Kennett by an inch and an eighth. Natale of State was third and Wyman fourth, Harvard's only point winning position in the event...
...Mexican Government provided Trotsky with a 24-hour military guard. He had a private guard of revolver-toting secretaries (one of whom, an American, was kidnaped and murdered during the first attempt against Trotsky). But the assassin, allegedly an agent of the NKVD (Russian Secret Police), arrived in broad daylight, introduced to Trotsky's circle in the guise of a friend. One day as Trotsky sat reading a paper, this friend, Frank Jackson,*produced a small pickax (such as mountain climbers use), smashed Trotsky's skull and crunched into what a moment before had been...