Word: broadly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Groton Averell is remembered as a modest, fairly intelligent boy. Both there and at Yale he was, like most young men of the same background, satisfied with a "gentleman's C." Only the "broad environment" of Yale, he thinks, saved him from becoming a snob. "I shudder to think what I might have become," he says, "hand I followed most of the other 'Gretties' to Harvard." From biography of W. Averell Harriman, Life Magazine, December...
...tidy little mountain capital of San José it was fiesta time. The coffee had been harvested, the price was good, and everybody had some money. Thousands of ticos (Costa Ricans) jammed the broad green of the capital's Plaza Gonzáles Viquez for the annual four-day "Civic Festival...
...done the most to put and keep U.S. foreign policy on a bipartisan basis, will speak in the new G.O.P.-controlled Congress with even more authority than he wielded last year. As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, his influence in uniting Senate action on the broad objectives of world security will be greatly enhanced. He firmly believes that U.S. policy, as it is today, will succeed - "unless it is scuttled here at home...
...broad churchman like Bishop Sherrill, 58-year-old Norman Nash, son of an Episcopal clergyman, was graduated from Harvard and Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge (Mass.). He studied at Cambridge (England), and was ordained in time to serve as a chaplain in World War I. After the war he returned to Episcopal Theological School, where for 19 years he taught New Testament and Christian social ethics, built a reputation for encyclopedic knowledge and crisp, closely reasoned lectures...
...largest securities market in the U.S.-and an eminently respectable institution. It was not always thus. The Curb's founders, small-fry brokers, began informal trading about 100 years ago on the curbstones of Manhattan's financial district. By 1900, the outdoor market had settled down in Broad Street. There, no matter what the weather, traders gathered daily to trade securities in a bedlam of shouting and sharp dealing. Nobody needed a license-only stout lungs, a fur-lined coat...