Word: broadness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...matters in defense of the faith" by means of a monthly bulletin. Detailed plans are out by which fundamentalist laymen may be elected as commissioners to the forthcoming session of the Presbyterian General Assembly. D. Webster Wylie is President of the League, with offices at No. 25 Broad St., Manhattan...
Samuel Matthews Vauclain, 69-year-old President of Baldwin Locomotive Works, is hale. He may be seen at his Broad Street offices in Philadelphia any day he is not absent answering the questions of investigation committees or attending sessions of one of his many scientific societies...
...That broad and fertile State was introduced to the Union as "Bleeding Kansas" and settled mainly by abolitionists. Perhaps the same temperament produces the abolitionist and the prohibitionist. At any rate, it is only natural that a state born in such a crisis should be stamped with a seriousness of purpose from the beginning. Nature seems to have fostered this Puritanical seriousness with the bleak and dismal plains which cover much of the state, with nothing in the way of trees, hills or lakes from horizon to horizon to add frills to a severely simple landscape. At any rate, Kansas...
...riot of the first night, during which the actors were driven from the stage by the students who disapproved of the play's representation of Harvard life. He also read several selections from the play itself which showed its satirization of Harvard men and customs. The play is broad and farcical in its tone and offers great possibilities to its present producers for parody on current Harvard life, as well as on the life of the much discussed "gay nineties...
...education. Pubic speaking, visits to art galleries, musicales, all these and other cultural effects find place in the curriculum. In sum they represent an enrichment of each vagrant's life. After a winter spent in Chicago and enlivened by intellectual restlessness, the happy tramp heeds the call of the broad highway, his acquaintance with the humanities having given him that detached, impassive view of life, so idispensable to well-poised members of his profession...