Word: broadness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...schedule of events, to be followed for the present, was given out at the meeting. The men have been asked to report as follows: 1.45 o'clock, hurdlers, pole vaulters and javelin men; 2 o'clock, high jumpers; 2.15 o'clock, sprinters;; 2.30 o'clock, broad jumpers; 2.45 o'clock quarter milers; 3.15 o'clock, middle distance men; 3.45, long distance men; 4.15 o'clock shot putters; 4.45 o'clock, discus throwers; 5.15 o'clock hammer throwers...
...vender of thinking?wholesale and retail?Michael Webb (friend of readers of Bunk) establishes himself at Echo Hill Inn in Connecticut. In this labyrinthine tavern with steps up, steps down from room to room, with a billiard room that is half of the kitchen marked off by a broad red line across which the cooks dare not tread but over which they pasa nicely browned sausages or still-warm tarts to the loungers in the billiard department?in this delectable tavern foregather Michael Webb and claimants to culture. Their discursive and argumentative flights?hodgepodge of raillery and provocative philosophy?...
...governments concerned agreed to these recommendations, and also to "the broad principle that, where territory is violated without sufficient cause, reparation is due, even if at the time of the occurrence it was believed by the party committing the violation that circumstances justified the action...
Fountain at the entrance of Central Park, and four of the largest downtown office buildings in Manhattan: the Whitehall Building, the Trinity Building, the United States Realty Building, the Broad St. Exchange Building...
...streets early in the picture, and acted with reasonable sanity and dignity from then on. She is really too lovely altogether to go clowning all over the screen with such a master of the jongoleur's art as W.C. Fields. Fields, by the way, contributes his own blundering broad-faced type of humor which this department has always enjoyed enormously. It is to be regretted that he falls on and off the screen comparatively few times...