Word: broadness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Woman, Boat. Above six feet in height, full of face and broad of figure: Oscar Frederick William Olaf Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Skane and Crown Prince of Sweden. Small, dark, sharp of feature: Louise, Crown Princess of Sweden, daughter of Prince Louis Battenberg, second cousin of the Prince of Wales, great-granddaughter of the great and plump Victoria. Under their feet: the motor-ship Gripsholm making its way into New York Harbor...
...admiral's hat reposed, of course, upon the semi-bald Premier Mussolini. A brilliant ministerial uniform encased his purposeful figure. A broad green cordon held the blazing order of SS Maurizio e Lazzaro suspended upon his chest...
...Moderates, led by no one man but rather by a broad group whose theology is Fundamental yet not militant to the extent of imposing its tenets upon all Presbyterians by other than the duly constituted judicial agencies of the Church. Its political program was to put in the field?as it successfully did last year after the Modernist-Fundamentalist fight had reached its peak?a tolerant nonmilitant Fundamentalist who would administer church affairs in a businesslike way and smooth over internal disputes...
Most striking of all was the incorporation in the university scheme of the undergraduate college with courses of a broad informational character filling out the scanty background in the American student's home training. This purely collegiate living, in the midst of university environment has been the cause of much shaking of heads by educational leaders whose eyes are fixed upon European models. They ignore the fact that without these undergraduate bodies the moral and financial strength of the university would not exist, and even the tremendous pressure that great educational foundations can bring to bear will never uproot this...
...whole field of criminal law, criminal procedure, the administration of criminal justice, and the legal phases of penal treatment. Still another is the respective provinces of adjudication and administration; how to achieve a proper balance between treatment of individual cases as types of generalized classes of cases, governed by broad principles, and treatment of each particular case as unique. Still another is preventive justice something no less fraught with possibilities than preventive medicine. Still another is the limits of effective legal action; a study of what we may hope to do through law and legal machinery...