Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While there is agitation for a radical or conservative social settlement of world peace, there is none for a moderate arrangement, sufficiently broad to include all but implacable communists or irreconcilable reactionaries...
...Columbia University. In 1923 he won a $1,500 Pulitzer traveling scholarship and went to Europe, never to return. He served the United Press as Vienna string man (space-rate writer), then as Vienna staff correspondent for years. He became something of a Vienna figure-his wretched German, his broad-brimmed Stetson hat, his high-laced shoes, his corner seat in Vienna's Cafe Louvre, his troubles with women (for some time he lived with a supposedly sinister elderly Russian woman known as "The Countess"). In July 1941, U.P. fired him for "nonperformance...
Between Rouen and Le Havre the Seine becomes so broad that ferryboats take the place of bridges. Wending its serpentine way through the Norman greenery, the river flows past the village of Villequier, once the home of Victor Hugo, begins to turn salty near Quillebeuf, painted by the seascapist Boudin. The exhibition, with six splendid Boudins including a glimpse of the beach at Trouville, ends with Corot's serene view of seaside Honfleur...
Marden docked in San Francisco twelve days and eleven hours from the time of embarkation, with his twenty dollars still intact. After a cursory study of highway maps, which consisted mainly in picking out a broad red band that seemed to stretch from San Francisco to Boston, he again shouldred his pack and hit the road. Eight days later, dead-tired, broke, but happy, the New Zealander triumphantly entered the suburbs of Boston...
...history of Harvard University and of American education. To me personally it meant the loss of a friend whose inspiration was always stimulating--when I was a student; as I worked with him on Harvard affairs as an alumnus; and in public life. His brilliant mind and broad philosophy ranged far beyond educational limits and definitely contributed to progress in practical government. Massachusetts and the nation will miss a wise counsellor and guide to fuller life...