Word: broadness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Broad-jump.--C. W. Cook, H. C. Flower, Jr., R. O. West...
Captain Oler of Yale, Buck, Nagle and Johnstone, pole-vaulters, and Hampton, a broad-jumper, came to the Stadium yesterday afternoon to limber up and get the marks for their take-offs arranged for Saturday's meet. Coach Mack accompanied these few field event men. The rest of the squad will reach Boston this afternoon and will stay at the Woodland Park Hotel, Auburndale...
Important as "making money" may be to preserve solvency or even in common estimation to measure success, mere accumulation is not the paramount object in life of the broad-minded business man. The work itself, with its responsibilities and power, its service rendered, is in large degree its own reward. The auditor of a great railway system, with a fine and sincere enthusiasm, once told me that instead of drawing a salary for his services he really ought to pay for the privilege enjoyed, of seeing, as he put it, "all the business of the road come across his desk...
...college graduate, although his general training might be good, was often not immediately serviceable in business. His mind might be active, his vision broad, and his ideals high, but frequently he did not function properly in the initial stages of his business career. He was apt to be impatient with exacting routine and wearisomely repeated detail operations, because he did not realize their significance. He often sought promotion, not merely because the pay was higher but because the work was more interesting, before in his employer's opinion he was fitted for the work of the organization he had entered...
...Track Meet will be held in the Stadium on Saturday afternoon, May 20, commencing at 2.50 o'clock. The events will be as follows: 100, 220, and 440-yard dashes, 880-yard run, one and two-mile runs, 120-yard high and 220-yard low hurdles, running high and broad-jumps, putting the 12-pound shot, throwing the 12-pound hammer, and the pole-vault...