Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pound weight throw, will match the Varsity's triumvirate Jack Fisher, Felton, and Zeigler against Bob Bennet of Brown, who throw 55 feet (slightly under the world's record) before the war. Medals will be awarded in this event, while for the pole vault, shot put, high jump, and broad jump glass trays will be the prizes. Today's competition is the last for the Crimson prior to next Saturday's trip to Yale's Coxo Cage for what is generally considered the first, last, and only meet of the Varsity season...
Meanwhile, farther north, at St. Paul's School, the '50 hockey squad will find itself in a hotbed of secondary school ice finesse. Track coach Ed Flanagan will take 33 men back to the scene of his former coaching successes for competition in the dash, 300, 600, 1000, hurdles, broad jump, high jump, pole vault shot-put and weight throw. George Appel, national scholastic indoor vault king (13 feet six inches), will unfortunately be on the other side...
...with a new type of imperialism allied to general reaction, lead to increased dangers of another war. To combat this danger Sternberg falls back on the progressives, urging them to expose this danger and to prepare an adequate foreign as well as domestic program, which will give them a broad basis for action when the crisis strikes...
Burial in Berlin. In Vienna, the cold wave brought a bizarre crime wave. Robbers with Tommy guns held up trolley cars, stripped riders to their underwear, made off with their clothes. Raiding parties snatched hats (which were almost unobtainable by purchase) from men's heads in broad daylight. One Viennese, held up and stripped in front of his own door, asked for his key; the bandit fumbled through his victim's pants, found the key and the householder scurried indoors...
...vigorous doctoring of texts (i.e., cutting, rearranging, shearing off excess dialect) Editor Aswell has adapted them for what he calls "modern reading." His conception of humor is broad enough to embrace Irving, Poe and Edward Everett, but he also includes the best of the true-blue local colorists, nateral-born liars and ringtailed roarers. Among them...