Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...where Everett Street runs into Massachusetts Avenue, Sargent College of Physical Education for Women has been turning out energetic young gym instructresses for 66 years. From its modest origin in 1881, when Dr. Dudley A. Sargent opened a "Sanatory Gymnasium" on Church Street, Sargent has progressed steadily to a broad and varied curriculum, with a student body of 500. In 1904, the school moved from Church Street to the present site, and slipped under the wing of Boston University in 1929, where it has been ever since...
Three or four nights a week, he has an odd, recurring dream. He is an athlete in a jampacked, outsized stadium. He takes off for an efficient, unspectacular broad jump. But he suddenly soars past the pit and over the heads of the officials, zooms right on over the stadium wall in a long, majestic arc, and wakes before he lands...
...engineer, would risk even entertaining the thought of communicating with a foreign, capitalist newspaper. . . . Third, of the countless numbers of Russian engineers I have met, both here and in the Soviet Union, not one of them could have possibly written in such good English, or ... displayed such broad knowledge of economic problems here...
Elsewhere, the men to watch tomorrow are Ruby Fobert (Tufts) in the broad jump, Warren Willette (Northeastern) in the high jump, Bill Lawrence and Gene Lockett (Harvard) in the pole vault, and big Geoffrey Tootell (Harvard) in the shot...
...being the "primary inspirer" of the rationalistic approach to theology, whose views on church government might well be useful to the present-day church-unity movement: "It is far from impossible that the future reunion of the churches of the Reformation . . " will follow the lines of Hooker's broad-church episcopal theory. . . .But even if he should fail to win us to agreement with him, the reading of his pages cannot fail to put us in a frame of mind in which we shall be more disposed to agree with one another...