Word: broads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...correspondents who have watched hard-eyed, cigar-chewing Old Guardsmen from Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio run Republican conventions for years, the pre-convention scene's most striking aspect was the upsurge of new Midwestern faces. Roly-poly Editor William Allen White of the Emporia, Kas. Gazette and broad-beamed Managing Editor Roy Roberts of the Kansas City Star headed the contingent of Kansas journalists and political amateurs who buzzed importantly around Landon headquarters. Mostly men in their 40's who had brought their homebody wives along, they were frankly delighted at finding themselves the centre of convention...
...other grants announced today are for studies in human behavior and in judicial power. Pitirim Sorokin; professor of Sociology and Chairman of the Department of Sociology, will prepare a study of time budgets as part of a broad survey of conditions among the unemployed of Massachusetts by Faculty members...
Rolls-Royce after Rolls-Royce twinkled up to the docks in Southampton, although it was Derby Day, and swank Britons scrambled to wave goodbys while broad Southampton Water was pack-jammed with British paddle-wheel steamers made joyously lopsided by passengers crowding near as possible to the Queen Mary. From Buckingham Palace the King Emperor flashed final greetings. From the Stateliest Ship began stately and soul-stirring B.B.C. broadcasts day and night to every remotest corner of the empire...
...Sturdy, broad-shouldered Carl Milles is 60, was once a pupil of Rodin, is one of the world's most respected artists. Noted for his unerring sense of design, especially impressive in his many famed fountains, Sculptor Milles was dismayed when the Rockefeller Center management rejected his plans for an Adam & Eve fountain in Manhattan's Radio City, filed a $15,000 suit for his time & trouble...
...reasons the University may or may not give for its failure to find sufficient funds for adequate instruction in the School of City Planning, the net result--abolition of the only existing professional school devoted to this subject -- is very greatly to be regretted. Such a school requires the broad background, provided by a large university with many different departments, to offer an adequate training for the work of the professional planner; to do efficient research work it must have both current and past knowledge readily available...