Word: broadness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Misinformed as to the nature of the Home Market Club, TIME apologizes for identifying Mr. Marvin specially with the wool trade. As to his being a "lobbyist," Mr. Marvin and TIME are at one. TIME invariably applies the term "lobbyist" in the broad sense described by Mr. Marvin. TIME specifies, when necessary and pos sible, whether the "lobbying" was proper or improper...
...Jury. Propped up in their box like boys at a spelling-bee, the new jury gazed with undisguised wonder at chunky Oilman Sinclair, whose broad face expressed confident determination. "Any time the truth comes out it is bound to help," was still Sinclair's attitude, but he was pale now as well as jaunty...
...Avery of Andover is one of the chief obstacles confronting the Freshmen, as he is a stellar performer in the discus, broad and high jumps, pole vault, and 220-yard dash...
...talk for their dinners after they have made their more or less perilous expeditions, takes his dinner parties along with him aboard the private yachts of rich friends when he goes a-faring. Last week a flotilla of four vessels bore him company along the Florida edge of the broad Atlantic from Miami southward to the Florida keys. There, while his hosts sipped ices under the southern sun, Mr. Beebe dropped, under the shield of a glass-windowed helmet, to see what he could see swimming at the bottom of the shallow...
Fretful, impatient, three Germans paced the Baldonnel Airdrome at Dublin, Ireland. Their plane was poised for flight, pointed westward, over the broad expanse of the Atlantic Ocean, toward America. Anxious, disappointed, obviously annoyed at delays, they waited for favorable weather reports, for they meant to be the first to fly successfully from the Old World...