Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hays Office was not signed until 1924. It collapsed two years later with the advent of sound and the ensuing conflicts with the Authors' League over scripts. A year later, producers agreed to abide by a list of eleven "Don'ts" and 26 "Be Carefuls," but the broad interpretations they allowed themselves soon roused another storm of public protest. It was not until 1930 that the present Production Code, based on the Ten Commandments, was drawn up. And even that did not noticeably improve movie bad manners and morals until producers, threatened with a Catholic boycott, finally agreed...
President Truman this week would face an assemblage worn by its labors, set on edge by its dissensions, pleased with its broad measure of agreement...
...have known the dreariness and weariness of this town in wartime is to appreciate the laughter, the smiles, the gay colors that fill every broad street and crooked winding alley now. . . . To see the lights burn unshaded, to see a half-dead village suddenly become wonderfully alive, to see Dutch boys once more united with their families, is almost compensation enough for the inconvenience that I have had to face here. They are not things to write about. They are feelings which have to be felt, and often the whole story is conveyed in a look, a smile, a handshake...
Every Freshman who enters after the inauguration of the core curriculum will be required to take Natural Science for two terms. The course will emphasize "the methods of the broad field of natural science" and will be conducted by a case method similar to that outlined by President Conant in his recent proposal for "science courses for non scientists...
...kept their seats in stony silence, Representative Sickles broke ranks to shake the new President's hand. "Why, Mr. Sickles!" exclaimed Lincoln, laughing and delighted, "from what I have heard of the doings at Tammany Hall, I expected you to be a giant of a man, big and broad-shouldered, tall as I am. But instead I find you are quite a scholarly sort of fellow." So began a friendship that lasted until Lincoln's death...