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Word: broads (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other winners were Bill Schmidt in the dash, Henry Marcy in the mile run, Steve Brennan in the hammer throw, Bob Haydock in the high jump, and Win Pettingell in the broad jump...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1940-VARSITY CINDER MEET PRODUCES UPSETS | 12/15/1936 | See Source »

Scene: The Private Study of King Edward at Buckingham Palace: Tiny Lord Beaverbrook, the most powerful London publisher and a onetime Canadian insurance salesman, perches with his broad grin in the middle of an armchair. Over whiskeys & sodas from 6 p. m. to 8 p. m., the King, restless and flushed with anger, tells Lord Beaverbrook, hastily summoned from a proposed trip to Arizona, of his resentment at Prime Minister Baldwin's summoning of the Cabinet to interfere in His Majesty's proposed marriage to twice-divorced Mrs. Simpson (TIME, Dec. 7). A break obviously is near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Edvardus Rex | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

Kawagoe to a tete-a-tete, told him in good round terms that the Japanese Government must withdraw its marines from the Shantung seaport, release its Chinese prisoners, restore the stolen Chinese documents. When opportunist Ambassador Kawagoe suggested that instead he and Foreign Minister Chang should discuss "broad Sino-Japanese problems." General Chang frostily replied: "Continuance of negotiations are useless while Japanese forces remain ashore in Tsingtao and while your Government continues to back the Mongols and Manchukuoans attacking Suiyuan" (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN-CHINA: Tsingtao Rampage | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

About to set out from Chicago on an evangelistic tour one day late last July, a broad-shouldered little preacher turned to his secretary, exclaimed: "I just remembered. The American Tract Society asked me a year ago to write a treatise. Here the contest closes Sept. I and I haven't written a line!" With that Rev. Dr. Henry Allan Ironside grabbed a handful of pencils, a package of copy paper. On an eastbound train, he had a chapter ready to mail from Canton, Ohio. By the time Evangelist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Ironside Broadside | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...before Actor Gielgud and Actress Lawrence had returned their mounts to the Ben Hur Livery Stables and the Ball was over, a small gentleman in evening clothes, Beaux-Arts' Board Chairman Ely Jacques Kahn, knew that the Beaux-Arts had made history this year. It was back on Broad way after a nostalgic period at the Waldorf-Astoria. For the first time an outsider had furnished the decorations, seven rayon companies having paid heavily for the privilege of advertising the ball as a Fete de Rayon Fantastique. And into the coffers of the Beaux-Arts Institute to educate young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: School Ball | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

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