Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...field events, Mike Ford, a Sophomore who has been consistently clearing 13 feet, is the star polevaulter, but Chet D'autremont has been pressing him for the top bracket. In the high jump, both Bob Partlow and Johnny Bunker usually top six feet. The broad jump will be omitted in the Yale meet, but Partlow and Pirnie will face Dartmouth with an excellent chance of finishing...
...Watkins, Corbett, Pirnie, and Donahue foursome won the final relay by about ten feet in 2:13.2, and Pirnie squeezed out a third in the broad jump. Bob Partlow won the event with a leap of 22 feet five inches. Previously, he and John Bunker had tied for first in the high jump...
...within the defense area there are three natural landing places: Lingayen Gulf, Batangas Bay, Manila Bay. On a map, Lingayen Gulf looks Manila like a setup-a broad, sheltered stretch of water with good beaches and roads leading directly down to the heart of the defense area at Manila. But there is trouble for an invader here. The water is shallow and only the small outriggers can use the gulf's shores. To land at Lingayen an enemy would have to anchor two or three miles offshore, lighter his troops to the beach. Once ashore, he would find that...
...Mediterranean ports to the Axis -suggesting a major campaign in that theatre. The French thought that after their own position had been clarified, the invasion would be attempted, perhaps late in February. Vichy guessers put forward a specific plan the Nazis might use: unassailable walls of mines guarding two broad, trans-Channel lanes, into which the German invasion fleet would be launched...
...apply the brakes to this type of rush by British businessmen, Winston Churchill has named Laborite Arthur Greenwood, his Minister Without Portfolio, as Chief of the Executive for Reconstruction, to work up broad schemes for a more beautiful post-war Britain. Today 99% of all new building operations is under direct Government control and private building can be done only under a special license. This does not apply to repairs and patching up of Blitzed houses, which is fast be coming a nationwide non-union job in which everybody has a hand...