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Word: broadness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME did not quote Subscriber Campbell directly, but erred in giving too broad a meaning to his industrial-farm idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 7, 1927 | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

Shortly before the accident, Buenos Aires, led by its mayor, had thronged the harbor to watch the covey of broad-winged Loening amphibians come swooping in from Mer del Plata, the Argentine's summer capital. Crowds had followed, by motor and field-glass, as the ships rose again and repaired to Palomar for the night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Diamond of Death | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

...broad jump, however, A.E. French '29 is the only University entry and William Dowding of Georgetown seems a sure winner in this event...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FAVOR CRIMSON RUNNERS TO WIN NEW YORK I. C. 4A. | 3/5/1927 | See Source »

...slow, yellow gas engulfed London, suddenly, one morning last week. It was not poisonous but it made eyes to smart and throats to tickle. Grime laden, it soiled. Dense, it blotted out objects within arm's reach. Translucent, it diffused broad daylight into a dull, enveloping bluish glow. As it must to London, "the worst fog in half a century" had come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: London Engulfed | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

...Word of a Friend" builds up with tolerable success the form of Bill the college waster, but fails dismally in the denounement which is designated to dispose of him; and Francis Fawsett's "Fisherman's Luck", in spite of occasional bright phrases, shows neither wit enough to redeem the broad burlesque in the lay figures of Waterly Meadows and Sir Tenterhook Weathervane nor invention enough to cover the threadbare situation in which these persons take part...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BRIGHT AND DULL SPOTS ARE SHOWN IN ADVOCATE | 2/23/1927 | See Source »

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