Word: broadness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then into firing position. Only one or two were able to get broadside on to bring all their batteries into firing position. The great guns fired incessantly by proxy through the little one-pounders mounted on their backs. The Black Fleet came in to 600 yards firing broad sides. At noon Admiral McCully ordered the Black Fleet to retire at full speed to its base...
...Calvin Coolidge? The answer of observers is that "Calvin's Campaign" is unique, that it treads unostentatiously, that it advances itself by little things: unexpected invitations to call on the Chief Executive; White House answers to the letters of Tom, Dick and Harry, written with flattering conscientiousness; broad-minded patronage; a keen little slogan, "Keep Coolidge"; the personal touch from the finger that starts so many things by pressing a little button...
...trials in the high jump and the broad jump, which were held in the cage on Soldiers Field yesterday, R. D. Gerould '24 and R. L. Hyatt '24 respectively took first places...
...Broad Jump.--Won by R. L. Hyatt '24, 21 ft., 4 in.; second, D. J. Quirk '26, 20 ft., 11 in.; third, David Neiman '24, 20 ft., 7 in.; fourth, M. R. Smith...
Even modern conceptions, based as they should be, on the discoveries of the spectroscope and telescope, are not always as broad as one might expect. The spaces involved in astronomical measurements are too great to be comprehended. Astronomers, like Flammaxion, for example, realize that there are universes without end, infinite distances apart in infinite space. They know that the whole solar system has been moving through space for ages,--that no star, no planet ever has the same absolute position twice. The popular classification of stars as "fixed", is therefore a purely arbitrary...