Word: broadness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Several facts, however, are certain. One is that Yale has in Norton about the fastest sprinter in collegiate circles. Another that Gault and Gibson of Yale will be strong contenders for the quarter and half mile honors respectively, and that Deacon is practically sure of capturing the high and broad jumps, and Bench the javelin...
Crazy Horse, Lame Deer, Spotted Eagle, Elk Horn, Broad Road, Natchez and, most bloody of all, Geronimo the Apache and, most formidable, Sitting Bull- down they went, years ago, before Big Chief Bear Coat...
Last week, Sir Thomas Inskit, leader of the "Low" or "Broad Church" party, issued a manifesto hotly attacking the Anglo-Catholics. It is admitted the Prayer Book will stand revision, for it has scarcely been altered since the days of Queen Bess when it was finally adopted as a compromise between the High and Low Church parties of the day. But that it should be revised Catholic-ward is unthinkable to the majority of Britishers. The possibility of such an event arises chiefly from the fact that Parliament has relinquished much of its control of the Church to ecclesiastics...
Many a supper table, that night, kept its candles wagging until the company came back to blow them out and sit down to Derby breakfast with day broad at the windows; many a pretty gentleman cut cards and drank his glass who might not have a penny by sunset. It dawned cloudily; the morning was bright and dour in fits, with little spurts of rain and a rattle of distant thunder like uneasy hoofs. On the sidings of the railroad waited eight and a half miles of Pullman cars. Airplanes were neatly parked near the grandstand. Innumerable financiers, editors, sportsmen...
...Action. Last week, Publisher Curtis resolved the Ledger's domestic difficulty in the morning field by purchasing The North American* for amalgamation, thus reducing competition. Then he commenced to publish The Sun, a new capsule sheetlet of "broad popular appeal for all classes of readers...