Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week four Harvard Business School researchers* came out with some new soundings. In a 434-page report they indicated a broad channel, if not a definite course, for postwar shipping...
...Mustang pilot was rescued less than three miles off Honshu in broad daylight by a surfaced submarine. Jap picket boats dared not venture out: submarine and pilot were protected by a circling Superdumbo...
Harder on the individual student than the Harvard recommendations, the Yale program prescribes nine courses for all men, in contrast to the seven suggested by the Buck Committee. Of the nine, however, only three are specific courses and one a limited choice; the rest offer a broad selection within certain fields. Thus the student finds that under either plan he is forced to take four courses definitely prescribed by the college...
...Showman. But when Jeffers became U.P. president in 1937, Big Bill developed a broad streak of Hollywood showmanship, a liking for lavish dinners -and the publicity and good will they brought the U.P. When he was crowned King Ak-Sar-Ben (Nebraska spelled backwards), an honor given each year to a leading citizen of Omaha, he decked himself out in silk knee breeches, a 35-lb. train, and a crown perched on the side of his head. His own battery of cameramen were on hand to take his picture. So attired, Jeffers presided over, and paid for, a dinner...
...Tall and broad, with the heavy, prominent features and classical tastes of a Roman emperor, Rhodes also combined the characteristics of an Elizabethan freebooter, a financial tycoon, and a humorless, aoth-Century dictator. "I contend," he said, "that we are the finest race in the world and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race." He would lay his big hand on a map of Africa, printed with the colors of many nations, and cry: "I want to see it all red, all red!" He envisioned an Anglo-North American empire that...