Word: broadness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...could leave behind his duties as a professor of philosophy at Columbia University. Ahead lay Europe, then broad, fertile Russian plains, and Moscow, and Number Six Boulevard Sretensky...
There, with the broad economic vision of Percy A. Rockefeller, George Fisher Baker and John D. Ryan,* trustees of Consolidated Gas waited. Their company is the second largest public utility in the country. Only American Telephone & Telegraph surpasses it. It owns all of the capital stock of the New York Edison Co., one of the two largest electric operating units in the U. S. With its dozen main subsidiaries it supplies the 5,000,000 people of New York City, boroughs of Manhattan, the Bronx and Queens, and a large section of adjoining Westchester County with practically all their...
French will be in stiff competition for points in the broad jump, but is counted on as a certain scorer. Bstes of Penn State is returning to defend his title and meet record set last rear 24 feet 8 and 1.2 inches...
...making the cloth expensive. In Ireland Inventor B. M. Glover of Bruntcliffe, near Leeds, has devised a machine which turns out 2,800 yards of material a week instead of the 150-yard output of the common loom. The fibres are passed through a carding machine, emerging as a broad loose band; then sewn crosswise by rows of tiny stitches; the crosswise direction giving great strength to the finished cloth. An inch of blanket cloth will be traversed by 16 to 20 rows of stitching, each stitch about one-fourteenth of an inch long. Weaving ("under and over") has been...
...French '29, in addition to being the favorite in the 100-yard dash, is depended upon for a first in the broad jump. His leap of 23 feet 11 and one-half inches in the Dartmouth meet, although discounted by a favoring wind, is nearly one foot farther than any Yale jumper has reached this spring. The closest competition will come in this event when G. A. Lomasney '28 battles with Oldt and Brandenburg of the Blue aggregation for second or third place. Against Dartmouth last week Lomasney jumped 22 feet eight inches, while at the same time Brandenburg...