Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wearing his famous broad-billed cap, perched on a high stool on the flag bridge facing aft ("only a damn fool faces into the wind"), Mitscher directed the mightiest naval unit in history in a soft, flat monotone that belied the compressed fury with which he fought. He was never known to get excited, even when Kamikaze flyers almost literally blew him off the flagships Bunker Hill and Enterprise...
Meanwhile, the country will continue to search about for a solution to the problem of intellectual inbreeding at the top levels of Education. 1946 has not brought the answer, and while the last wave of veterans surges through the colleges, planners look to broad scholarship programs to take up the slack left by loose planning. Scholarships, too, are a stopgap measure compared to federal aid. But scholarships succeed in bringing leadership to the colleges, whereas Mr. Conant's two-year plan could do little but stunt and discourage this very leadership...
...Flint, D. W. Read; one-mile run--J. F. Cogan, F. J. Gurley; two-mile run--H. Rosenfeld; one-mile relay--C. R. Wharton, D. C. Hamblett, A. F. Ruby, J. G. Wheeler; two-mile relay--D. L. Groshong, J. AA. Edelman, F. J. Gurley, F. B. Withington; broad-jump--H. H. Thayer, R. E. Schneider; polevault--P. G. Harwood, W. Lawrence, O. C. Torrey; high-jump--P. Garland, J. E. Harrigan; shotput (16 lb.)--P. Garland, W. J. Jackson, A. Wheeler; weightthrow (35 lb.)--S. M. Felton, J. W. Fisher, P. T. Zeigler...
...While we were still out at sea on board the invasion fleet," he mused, "we heard a radio broadcast on which Wendell Willkie was praising Mongomery's defeat of Rommel at El Alemein as the great turning point of the war." The historian indicated, however, that Willkie made that broad statement while unaware of the approaching landings which were to create what Professor Morison terms one of the major climaxes in the world conflict...
...Communist, but I feel that this broad philosophy of human, domestic, and state rights is in no way exclusive of the Communist definition of freedom as economic freedom, the right to work, the right to be free of the harrowing battle of merely staying alive. In fact, the keynote of the declaration, as reported in the NY Herald Tribune, is this new emphasis on the "freedom of security...