Word: broadness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eventuality of this sort cannot be too greatly deplored in advance. The main purpose of any university worthy the name is not special training, but the diffusion of a broad, liberal education, and the fostering of an idealistic humanism. Not until everything possible has been done to further the accomplishment of this vital aim the sine qua non of all civilizations which have left their impress on the pages of history can the claims of externals or appendages be considered...
...slender as a mast, with a voice like a wind murmuring among the halyards, went unostentatiously about his business. Fess, coming forward in a halting defense of his brother Ohioan, Daugherty, met the biting attack of the active, relentless Norris. While from the farthest cor ner, Magnus Johnson, in broad Swedish accent, vouched for the distress of the farmers and threatened, if he were re-elected next Fall, to "but in" on their behalf as he had not done during the apprenticeship of his brief ad interim term...
...Fling broad the sail, dip deep...
...unexpected appetizer to a dinner party. Thus is the play put out of its misery. The Telegram and Evening Mail: "A weak, illogical concoction, marred by much gushing sentimentality." Alexander Woollcott: "An innocent, artless drama . . . invested with the flavor of private theatricals." New York Evening Post: "Miss Bertha Broad's performance of the heroine was fairly competent, but in no way remarkable." The New York Times: "Not sufficiently well characterized and well written to be important or very convincing...
...Broad Jump.--Won by Comins, Yale, 24ft. 8in.; second, Rose, Penn. 24ft. 3 11-16in.; third, Boren, California, 24ft. 1 5-8in.; fourth, Wilson, Southern California, 22ft. 9 1-2in.; fifth, tie between Canfield, Dartmouth, and Watson, Colgate, 22ft...