Word: broadness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...took two championships? the half-mile varsity and one-mile freshman relays. Columbia won the two-mile varsity relay. Anthony J. Plansky, herculean Georgetown Universityite, retained his decathlon championship with a new meet record of 7,169.16 points for the ten events?100-meter dash, shot-put, high jump, broad jump, 400-meter run, 110-meter hurdles, discus throw, pole vault, javelin throw, and. 1,500-meter...
...keynote of the present Russian system is teamwork. In everything they do, the children are taught to work with each other, and also to work out their own problems as far as possible. They plan and organize their own course of study, both in its broad outline and smaller details, and take care of all the business of the school themselves...
...year program for the Ed.M." he says, "would permit us to lay broad and sure foundations in general courses and to organize our more specialized training with greater effectiveness, developing it also in certain new directions...
...There should be no necessity for this; on the contrary, our instructors in the special fields should be able to rely upon a broad and well-ordered foundation of general training. We have long realized how difficult it is to give such a foundation and add to it the necessary special training for competence in particular fields without requiring more than one year of study...
Contrasts, we have said, feature. In the initial chapter, ragged men, broad-shouldered and deep-chested, strain every muscle to drag along the heavy Volga barges. As they trudge along they sing, and the Wurlitzer accompanies them with most sombre effect. In the final chapter, we have the same music, the same words, but with true DeMillian touch, the characters have changed. The prince, in his emaculate uniform, the princess, in her satin slippers and glittering evening gown, and others in like garb, have replaced the ragged horde that formerly stumbled along the narrow tow-path...