Word: broadness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Standing alone, en face an entire square, fronted by a great piazza, opulent, spacious, its auditorium seven tiered, its broad stairways of scintillant marble, the Teatro Colon easily outranks, surpasses all other South American opera centers. Its seating capacity is 3500- It has been spoken of by Burton Holmes, famed traveler, loquacious lecturer, as "the best appointed theater I ever inspected." Commenced in 1889, completed in 1908, it has teemed ever since with the most consistently well dressed public in the world. To those not in evening dress-the embellished portal is Cerrado, Chiuso, Ferme, Locked...
...City Councillor, Mayor, State Legislator, Lieutenant-Governor, Governor, Vice President ?and which, as President, he owns. He had come that he might see, and that his wife might see a sternly sweet old lady. Elmira, mother of Grace Goodbue. Thin white hair gathered closely about her head, broad white lace neatly pinned about throat, an erect figure in which much strength remains-that is what one would have seen had he steepped indoors with the President...
Mounted police quickly appeared. Showers of stones met them. One bobby was knocked off his horse. At one point the angry crowd chased the police around the broad Ringstrasse...
Specimen Descriptions. "Big Boy" Morgan (hero) : "In years, he was somewhere between 25 and 30, but with a decidedly boyish look on his smooth, deeply tanned face. Standing well over six feet, his back was straight, his shoulders broad, and he bore himself with that air of strength and confidence best described by the good and familiar 'ready for either a fight or a frolic.' It was not at all difficult to guess that he was a great favorite among his fellows...
...foot for every day the ship had been gone from port. *Dr. Beebe's statement was broad, unscientific. Doubtless the Arcturus did not go far enough south to find the Humboldt Current. A report of Dr. Robert Cushman Murphy of the American Museum of Natural History last spring (TIME, April 13) indicated that El Niño, a warm current from the north which encounters the Humboldt off the coast of Peru about Christmas time, appeared a trifle behind schedule last winter but in unusual volume and southward reach...