Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Lewis, last of the great ham tragedians of politics, strode to the witness stand with long, measured steps: one-two-three-four. He bowed twice, sat down, sighed. Two tiny spring flowers, one white, one lavender, peeped from the lapel of his flowing black coat. His broad jowls were momentarily at rest, his eyebrows arched like innocent cupid's bows. Under subpoena by the Truman Committee, John Lewis had appeared gladly. There he sat, as guileless and patient as a volcano. He was ready to explain his threat of a coal strike...
...Broad in scope, ambitious in conception, William Hervey Allen's second big work since Anthony Adverse (TIME, June 26, 1933)* began last week its first public appearance. The Forest and the Fort is Volume I of a huge projected novel about American life between the years 1700 and 1840. It will be followed by at least five more volumes, of which two, Bedford Vil lage and City in the Dawn, are already written. The completed work will later be reissued in two volumes (Sylvania, Richfield Springs), finally assembled into a single massive tome called The Disinherited...
...hammer throw, at 2 o'clock, the discus at 2:30 and the javeling at 3 Saturday finds twelve other events listed: the high hurdles. 100-yard dash, mile run 440, low hurdles (120 yards), 220, SSO, two mile run, pele vault, high jump, shot put (16 pounds). and broad jump, Saturday's time schedule will be printed in the next week's SERVICE NEWS...
Health. "We must establish on broad and solid foundations a national health service. ... If this country is to keep its high place in the leadership of the world and to survive as a great power that can hold its own against external pressure, our people must be encouraged by every means to have larger families...
Ration Banking. OPA, under its humanizing policy (TIME, March 22), is now working hard to simplify the system. With the cooperation of the nation's 15,000 commercial banks, it has set up a broad system of ration banking such as Britain practices. Under this system, the small corner grocer can open ration point accounts in the bank and turn in coupons for credit. He may then draw a check on his account and present it to his wholesaler for more goods instead of giving the wholesaler a peck of coupons. More than a million ration accounts will mean...