Word: broadness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...child curled in a huge red armchair with bound volumes of St. Nicholas, reveling in the pranks of the Brownies, the Indian, the policeman, the sailor, Uncle Sam. What a strange contrast, to be sure, were these tiny beings, to the massive Mr. Cox, who was six feet two, broad-shouldered, lumbering, powerful. When I saw him two years ago, he still gave the impression of a man of great strength...
...last bugle note sounded in Colombes Stadium; a cannon boomed; down came the broad, embroidered Olympic standard from its masthead. Officials had gathered, had distributed prizes, had declared the Eighth Olympiad at an end. Tag-end events were won as follows : Weightlifting, Italy; yachting, Norway; equestrian sports, Sweden; cycling, France; gymnastics, Czechoslovakia and Switzerland. The few athletes remaining in Paris paid bills, packed trunks, bought tickets, caught steamer-trains, held postmortems. Led by the London Times, British newspapers chimed in on the post-mortems with notes for the most part sour. The Times flatly asserted that the games had inflamed...
...such obviously exceptional cases as staple grains, seemed to be fully firming up -but whether as a result of the long-predicted "gold inflation" or not cannot yet be determined. Industrially, it is a sluggish Summer. Agriculturally, it has been surprisingly prosperous. Financially, most signs point to a broad recovery in the Fall, particularly if Mr. Coolidge is reelected. Politically, this seems most likely...
...York Times is an example. Current History, a monthly journal of events, belongs to the Times group. Recently an article, almost a column and a half long, appeared in the Times, puffing its subsidiary. Said the opening sentence: "The August issue of Current History offers objective evidence of the broad diversity and superior utility of the valuable information which it conveys." Perhaps so. But the 'discerning reader is more likely to find in this sentence objective evidence of the Times' belief in the broad diversity and superior utility of group control of publications. If the Times occasionally gave...
...local stations in those cities will put them on the air. In other words, the main wire channel is limited to what the American Telephone and Telegraph Company can provide. It has a service to maintain, and cannot throw overboard every thing to give right of way to broad casting...