Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...further opposed the legislation on the grounds that wide representation has always been one of the great assets of the College, and that limitation would cripple all colleges financially and undermine the present endowments and gifts "which make education possible on a broad, democratic basis...
...sparkplug behind the present cabinet, which was so gravely threatened by the strike. With Britain fighting for her commercial life, there has been a strong prejudice against any form of work stoppage. To prevent grievances, pecuniary and spiritual, there exists a well defined system of mediation boards with broad powers, set up by the Attlee cabinet in 1945. Ernie Bevin, Britain's Foreign Minister, was formerly boss of the truckers before elevation to his present position. By any standard the strike should not have taken place, and surely not in the union which threw a scare into all London...
WASHINGTON, January 13. -- Cries that recent airplane crashes are making the American people "afraid to fly" and demands for investigation were voiced in Congress today on the eve of a Senate Committee's scheduled broad examination of commercial aviation...
Innocents & a Broad. Cartoonist Caniff's contribution to the industry was to throw in some curves and give it glamor. Long before he came along the "comics" had generally ceased to be funny. They had learned a thing or two about narrative from Sidney Smith's chinless Gumps and Frank King's morality play about the Wallets of Gasoline Alley. But mostly their idea of action was to have a character jump out of his shoes. Into Terry and the wartime Male Call (for the G.I. press) Caniff poured fast-breaking dialogue, credible adventure - and one touch...
...Broad jump--Won by Willette (NE); second, Wolozin (T); third, H. Thayer (H). Distance...