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Word: broadly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blank into the advancing Japanese, piled them in shredded heaps. U.S. volunteer pilots strafed them. British bayonets stabbed them. Riflemen and machine-gunners tore their advancing ranks on the open flats before the city. But the Japs came on. From Moulmein they drove the outnumbered, outgunned British across the broad Salween River. There, behind the river barrier, the British took their stand between the Japanese and the prize they were fighting for: mastery of strategic Rangoon, of the Burma Road to China, of the invasion road to India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF ASIA: Toward Rangoon | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

...throw in Briggs Cage at 2 o'clock, and the shot-put in Carey Cage at 2:30 o'clock. The order and times of the rest of the events are as follows: High Jump, Briggs Cage, 3 o'clock; Pole Vault, Carey Cage, 3:30 o'clock; and Broad Jump, Briggs Cage, 4 o'clock...

Author: By Dan H. Fenn jr., | Title: Cindermen Compete in N. Y. Millrose Meet and Stadium | 2/7/1942 | See Source »

...high jumps, John Bunker should top the bar at a better height than his team-mates, Ed Mahoney, Chase, Garland, and Sam Haydock. In the broad jump, the Crimson is in a sorry state, for Ted Bauer is in New York and the rest of Jaakko's entries are inexperienced. Lavin and Hodge again look good in this event, while Rhode Island has several excellent...

Author: By Dan H. Fenn jr., | Title: Cindermen Compete in N. Y. Millrose Meet and Stadium | 2/7/1942 | See Source »

Although Coach Jaakko Mikkola seems to have a strong, well-balanced Yardling track squad this season, which he calls better than last year's aggregation, he is still searching for high-jumpers, broad-jumpers, and, for the spring campaign, javelin throwers...

Author: By Dan H. Fenn jr., | Title: Sports of the Crimson | 2/5/1942 | See Source »

...broad-jump and high-jump situation is sad. Stu Grover, only experienced broad-jumper, is sick, and the rest of the men are green. There is a real need for entrants here, and Jaakko is urging that any Freshmen interested, experienced or not, should report soon. In the high-jump, however, there is a bright star on the horizon, for Dean Hennessy, now playing basketball, is planning to turn to track at the end of the hoopsters' season. But Pete Garland is at present the only man there, and he is not really a high-jumper. In the hammer throw...

Author: By Dan H. Fenn jr., | Title: Sports of the Crimson | 2/5/1942 | See Source »

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