Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Production Board offices, where gloom has often been thick enough to cut with a machine tool, were aglow last week with broad smiles, good digestions, men humming in the halls...
...foreigners who have seen him remember him best for his "lion's face," his broad and rocky mouth. Like all successful Red Army commanders, he is a professing Communist and (unlike some) he is also a devout one. Said he after the Finnish War: "We would not be Bolsheviks if we allowed the glamor of victory to blind us to the shortcomings that have been revealed in the training of our men. These shortcomings were the result of conventionalism and routine...
What Swing actually said, according to Swing, was: "At least part of the fleet. . ." The Swing broad "a" had confused some of his listeners, no doubt...
Late Uncertainty. The quotations from these early-American rugged optimists make the broad plains of later American thought look barren. The Beards in the part of the book devoted to the 19th Century choose quotations to illustrate the various facets of American civilization, including the works of many an intellectual maverick, from Frederick Turner's theory of the frontier to Admiral Mahan's theories of the influence of sea power. Mahan's faith in a British and American crusade committing the U.S. to a "world-spanning imperialist mission in the name of Christ and civilization" is posed...
...relays, the Crimson came out in front in the Varsity and Junior Varsity mile runs and the Jayvee two miler, while Tufts took the "A" two-mile. The field events were solid for the home team, as Garland took the shot put and high jump. Tom Holyoke outdistanced the broad-jumpers, and Gerry Lelane tied for top honors in the pole vault...