Word: broads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Flanders from the rest of Belgium and set it up as an autonomous state. Many pro-German Flemings were arrested for treason and imprisoned after the War and as long as King Albert sat on the throne, they had no hope of securing their freedom. Two years ago, however, broad-minded young King Leopold set out to unify his nation before another war, succeeded in having Paul van Zeeland, then Premier, push through Parliament a general amnesty granting full pardon to the post-War Flemish traitors...
...Broad Jump--Won by P. E. Morgan, Eliot; second, D. M. Hume, Lowell; third, R. H. Sullivan, Lowell; fourth, D. H. Mudge, Kirkland, Length--19 feet, 5 3-4 inches...
What the Graphic and what leading citizens did not foresee in 1884 was the automobile. Before the motorcar, nine interurban railroad lines fed into the city. Today there is only one. The broad Central Parkway was built atop the subway (at a cost of $3,330,990), and Cincinnatians in cars and busses now zip into the Basin in the morning, zip out at night about as fast as any other form of transport could carry them...
...business's cold statistics-carloadings, for example, a good measure of distribution, showing the quantity of goods being shipped; steel operations, a good measure of production, giving a clue to construction; crop prices, a good indicator of farmers' buying power. But on a 3,000-mile-broad continent these were and are only fragmentary answers to the question of "How's U. S. Business...
...softball pitching wizard, who should top 13 feet; Charley Oldfather, lanky Sophomore who will run the 1000; Gene Clark, who last year covered the mile stretch in 4.25; Pen Tuttle, whose entrance in the two mile run is doubtful after an illness earlier this week; and Bob Partlow, Sophomore broad and high jump flash, who does around 22 feet, 6 inches in the former event, and should top 6 feet, 2 inches in the latter tonight...