Word: broadness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wants his entire income to be claimed by promiscuous children. Last week, however, a test case was curiously decided in Moscow when 10 unmarried mothers claimed support for their 32 children from a rich peasant, Ivan Bourov. In Bourov's case, the Court laid down a broad, general principal: "One third of a citizen's income is the maximum percentage which can be claimed for support of his children, however numerous...
...result of four days of radical meetings and investigation was embodied in a report, containing no particularly revolutionary significance, which the 40 preachers prepared. This report stated that the Church should seek industrial enlightenment; that America lacks labor leaders of broad intelligence; and that the Church can do much to ameliorate present conditions by studying all the facts and showing employers and labor their common needs...
...appearance, Mr. Taylor suggests the men of wealth of a century and a half ago, the merchants who sat in the Tontine Coffee House from whose windows they could see the harbor and their ships. Anyone who saw him walking down Broad Street would realize immediately that such dignity and serene confidence could belong only to a bank policeman or its director. The picture of Myron Taylor that was published in news-sheets last week seemed to belong between the two older faces that appeared at the same time. Supported by the crisp ruff of a wing tipped collar, severe...
...need an Irish national newspaper which is to be open to all questions concerning the country. A broad, liberal policy should be pursued. No doctoring or coloring of the news columns by one party will be allowed although, of course, we shall put forth our point of view in the editorials...
...Egypt a thin-shanked scribe squatted cross-legged and on a broad sheet of papyrus spread across his lap drew, with brush dipped into ink-the hieroglyphics of his master's discourse. That too was writing...