Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japs unquestionably wanted Madagascar, for Diégo-Suarez, the French naval base at the northern end of the island, is the key to the western half of the Indian Ocean. Diego-Suarez snuggles in a broad, lighthouse-studded bay, and it affords the navy of the nation which controls it a fully equipped submarine station, a 26,000-ton capacity drydock (nearest equivalent: Southampton, England), radio stations, a largely equable climate, a military hospital, a good water supply, a big power plant and meteorological station...
Recently, Fish revealed he had requested active service in the Army. He was diplomatically turned down on the grounds that his "age and . . . broad knowledge of military matters" make him "of greater service in the halls of Congress." But trouble brewed in Fish's district. Eight well-known Republicans turned thumbs down on Fish. "A leopard," they said, "cannot change his spots...
While it is encouraging to find an intelligent man who can still write a book without calling Hitler the devil, such an overwhelmingly realistic study as Spykman's appears extreme. His concept of balanced power may perhaps be broad enough to meet the challenge that power politics has already held the stage too long, and should not be perpetuated...
...current Battle of the Conductors. Besides being, with the exception of Walter's book on Mahler, the sole piece of intelligent prose published by a major American conductor on musical history or theory for the last ten years, it reveals Boston's Bayard as a keen historical analyst with broad-based Van-Wyck-Brooksian sympathies. This may seem like the introduction of strange standards, as if I were to attribute Joe Louis's technique to a knowledge of boxing history, and, in the case of a composer, it would be. A composer, after mastering the fundamentals, should...
Forty experts in a broad range of topics concerning the war will address a two-week conference organized by the Nieman Foundation for May 18 to May 29. Delegates from more than 50 leading newspapers and periodicals have been invited to join this most comprehensive of war studies and hear such well-known speakers as Archibald MacLeish and Byron Price...