Word: broadness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Over an operating table in Manhattan stood a huge old man. His surgeon's gown hung straight from broad shoulders. Its sleeves ended in neat, starched bands about his wrists, just above monstrously big and bony hands, hands that opened, closed with sinuous, powerful contractions, extensions. The surgeon was about to go to work...
...fifty-eighth annual track meet between Oxford and Cambridge last week. Hyatt helped materially last year in Oxford's 6 to 5 victory over Cambridge by winning the shot put and pole vault events. This year, although Cambridge won the meet, Hyatt took two firsts, in the broad jump and pole vault, setting a new meet record in the latter event when he cleared 12 feet in an exhibition leap after having won the event at 11 feet 3 inches. The former Harvard man was the outstanding individual contestant in the meet and shared with Lord Burghley, England's foremost...
...best all-around athletes at Harvard, Hyatt was for two years a star on the track team. In 1923 he won the high jump in the Yale meet although handicapped by an injury received in his Sophomore year, and in 1924 he placed in the broad jump...
...here at last is proper championship for the maligned denizens of the broad highway. And the defense is sound. Who, indeed, could suffer the meadows of Jersey from a Lehigh car window were it not for the rampant pianos and couchant spark plugs of commercialism which color the horizon? Life's sadder spots are indeed rouged to good purpose by the devices of bill posting...
...Church in the U. S. since 1923, member of the Department of Church Co-operation since 1922, on the Executive Committee of Presbyterian Alliance since 1921, of the Federal Council of Churches since 1922, member of the Minnesota State Board of Parole since 1915. Honors sit comfortably on his broad brow topped by his wavy grey hair. Fellows at the conference looked at him, saw a well-groomed personage, a man of round and cheery face. Those little wrinkles peeping behind his rimless eyeglasses were of good humor and of study, not of irascibility...