Word: broadness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...both the 120 and 220-yard hurdles in last year's meet with Yale 1925 will undoubtedly show up well. In the running high-jump, Fitts, Gerould, Murray, with H. W. Abbott '25 and J. M. Greeley '25 should be preeminent while Jenkins and Page are outstanding in the broad-jump, Greenidge in the javelin throw, Carpenter in the discus throw, and Davis in the pole-vault will probably star in their events...
Fine Arts-"The Beggar's Opera", by John Gay. Delicate airs, broad comedy, delightful burlesque, and keen satire...
...little strength. Mr. Gilbert makes a valiant effort with the doctor's part, and puts into the play much that it lacked in the writing of it. Especially in the earlier scenes of straight comedy is he good; when it came to the ending, his skill was wasted in broad comic effects...
...unpopular or not the Conservative Club and the Debating Union, of which it is one unit, if big enough in outlook and broad enough in foundation, have the opportunity to render a great service to the university and to the country. The time is past when college men can sit back above and apart from the rest of the world, to graduate and "go into" cotton, or steel, or architecture...
...freight rate which the trunk lines have assigned to the New England railroads is lower than that accorded the railroads which feed the other Atlantic ports. And this accounts for the recent trouble with one of the finest terminals of the railroad system--the port of Boston, which is broad, "deep chested", protected, and well furnished with excellent docking facilities; and what is still more in its favor from the point of view of the steamship companies, it is some three hundred miles, one day, nearer Europe than is New York, the nearest of the other ports. The steamship companies...