Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the year-long siege of La Rochelle, which broke the rebellious Huguenots, Father Joseph was offered quarters in Richelieu's house. Instead he chose "a deserted summerhouse standing beside a broad ditch at the end of the garden. . . . When the wind blew hard from offshore and the tides were high, the ditch overflowed, ankle deep, into the friar's bedroom...
...than you indicate. Obstetrics, unless I am mistaken, is the science and art of pre-natal care and delivery. The teeth discover a proved uterine existence early in embryonic life, a significant circumstance in attempting to control their normal development. We should be concerned as dentists with a very broad concept of the factors affecting dental disease to the end that your children may be less affected by dental disturbances...
...quarter century later to establish a highly efficient purchasing office in place of a mess of independent budgeteers, William G. Morse tried his hand at a hundred different jobs. One-time chauffeur, salesman, laborer, riveter, puncher, fitter, inspector, gang boss, foreman, grain merchant, retailer, jobber, manufacturer--he has the broad knowledge of buying, selling, testing, and using, needed to handle wisely the spending of millions of dollars on items ranging from bottled stallion urine to Business School dormitories...
...four broad sources of additional revenue tapped by the new bill, corporation incomes will supply the most. From them is expected $1,382,100,000 more than they would have paid under the previous bill-a total for 1941 of nearly...
...sent 50 correspondents, officers and privates gasping out into the night, but they didn't incommode the General. He had stepped out just before the raiders appeared. Six of the seven raiders were promptly captured. Umpires ruled that they had gone too far: instead of being marked with broad Blue arm bands as the rules required, they wore tiny Blue ribbons on their hats. They also drove a deceptively marked vehicle. They were disqualified, and the effects of their raid canceled. But for this overreach, Ben Lear might have been compelled to run his army with a skeleton staff...