Word: broadness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Attending Winchester High School and Worcester Academy, French was a star halfback and track performer at both institutions. He was captain of his Freshman football team at the University, high individual scorer in the Yale track meet, tallying especially heavily in the dash and the broad-jump. In the class elections the Freshmen elected French president of the class...
Exporters of U. S. goods to France were jubilant last week. The French Cabinet's provisional degree (TIME, Nov. 21) reducing tariffs on U. S. goods came into effect. Soon $250,000 worth of U. S. goods were released from French bonded warehouses, emptied into a broad stream of commerce...
Superintendent McAndrew reached the door. The voice of the board's president, J. Lewis Coath, reached him: "Will the superintendent please remain?" Superintendent McAndrew's short, broad-shouldered form passed the door jam. Mayor Thompson's figurative teeth gnashed. One of them broke from the denture. It was Walter J. Raymer, Chicago banker, theretofore docile member of the board. He cried...
...Broad Street Station, Philadelphia, throngs milled. The face that President Coolidge looked for was that of William Cameron Sproul (Sprole), onetime (1919-23) Governor of Pennsylvania. Mr. Sproul is president of Philadelphia's Union League Club. This evening he was the President's host...
...experts in economics to work. They made five broad investgations: 1) consumers-how they use their credit for buying clothes, furniture and jewelry; 2) merchandise-how pianos and books are sold; 3) repossession-how used motor cars are handled; 4) depression-how consumers' debts affected a financial depression in the Pennsylvania coal fields; 5) dealers-how they sell new and used cars and how they do their banking...