Word: broadness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bedlam of an earlier day. His condition is answered for nowadays by Science as resulting from deficiency of the thyroid gland?a small vesicle in the neck that secretes a fluid essential to the vital development of nearly every part of the human organism. "Hands and feet are broad, pudgy and floppy; the fingers stiff, square and spadelike; the toes spread apart, like a duck's, by the solid skin. . . . Even the intelligence common to the higher animals is wanting. The cretins of the 'human plant' kind, as they have been nicknamed, will not recognize mother nor father...
...ordered five new boats for Weld boat house. Three of them are to be broad comps and two of them narrow comps. These boats are to replace others that were damaged during the summer...
...wonder what Mr. Upton Sinclair who so scathingly attacks American colleges and universities on the charge that they are controlled by ultra-conservative financiers who want only "accepted", doctrines taught and who smack not at all of the liberalism and broad-mindedness needed by leaders of our education,--we wonder what Mr. Upton Sinclair will do when he hears that Mr. Howard Eliott '81 has been chosen as the new president of the Board of Overseers at Harvard? No doubt he will clap his hands and shout from the house-tops: "I told you it was so! Here...
...Farrell, who is taking on the duties of head coach of Harvard track for the second season, went to Paris with the American Olympic team this summer in the capacity of broad jump coach, and Jaccho Mikkola, who is to return to Harvard this fall after a year's absence to act as Farrell's assistant, was the head coach of the Finnish Olympic team, which placed a close second to the American winners at Paris last July...
...Times is very little given to the practice of urging candidates upon the Democratic Party or upon any other party. It is independent of all parties. It hopes that both parties will nominate men of the highest character and ability, men of steadfastness and courage, of broad understanding and of constructive minds. We feel, therefore, that it does not lie outside the newspaper province and privilege to urge upon the attention of the Democrats the name of a man whose distinguished ability and standing are attested by the high honors he has already received from the party...