Word: broadness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...close friends temper this estimate. Bernard Baruch, who has known Billy for 30 years, says solemnly: "This man, small in stature, is big and broad and fine in his viewpoints." Author Ben Hecht admits that "Billy has a genius for not making friends" and is "as wistful as a meat ax"; but he is also "a kind of frustrated poet . . . a kind of slum poet and Jack the Ripper rolled into...
Billy's column takes the broad view. One day he may deliver a cheap-seats catcall at international politicos; the next he may tool up an ancient vaudeville wheeze into a brisk short short. A sample of his grandest manner: "Even if we told them how, I don't think the Russians could make the atom bomb. . . . I gather it takes more than a cyclotron, some chemists, and a boy to run out for coffee. I don't think the Soviets have what it takes. . . . How come they haven't been able to turn...
...comes from the propeller, whose fast-moving tips stir up racketing sound waves. To eliminate the waves, NACA designed a five-bladed prop, which looks like a five-petaled flower. It gives plenty of push when driven (through reduction gears) at a comparatively slow 1,000 r.p.m. The broad, leisurely blades do their work in near silence...
...ripple ran through the throngs lining the route from Waterloo Station. But it was only Queen Mary, sedate and ramrod-backed, in her maroon Daimler. The real cheers came half an hour later, when six prancing white police horses stepped along the broad, sanded Mall leading a shining, black state landau with scarlet-coated outriders. In the carriage, her pink ostrich feathers bobbing gaily, sat the Queen, King George beside her, in naval blues; and opposite their parents, riding backwards, the Princesses. As they drove past the cheering crowds, Margaret couldn't resist craning round once...
...with wheat prices still booming in a hungry world, the mortgage issue is far from academic for hundreds of submarginal wheat farmers along Saskatchewan's western border. To keep these uneconomic producers from going to the wall, the province will probably pass a cumbersome moratorium bill. On the broad issue of the province's powers, Premier Douglas promised to appeal the Ottawa court's decision to the Privy Council in London...