Word: broads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Partlow starred for the Harvard Freshman. He won the high jump, tied for first in the broad, and ran lead off on the winning sprint relay. He set a new record in the high jump at 5 ft. 11 1-8 in. His tie in the broad jump at 22 ft. 6 1-8 in. also sets a new record. The sprint, relay, composed of Partlow, David Ives, Don Donahue, and Charles Smith finished the 440 in 44.2 seconds...
...Taierhchwang and chased them 20 miles back into Yihsien, brought down overwhelming Japanese reinforcements from Tsinan and Tsingtao last week. These raised the siege of Yihsien, from which 20,000 Chinese retreated, and approximately 150,000 Japanese effectives were said to face perhaps 400,000 Chinese along the broad "Chinese Hindenburg Line" paralleling the Lunghai Railway. Greatly alarmed, responsible Chinese newsorgans editorialized last week "Suchow is our Verdun," admitted that if Suchow is taken by the Japanese they will have a stranglehold on North Central China, gravely menacing Hankow...
...relay team anchored by Dick Gill. Torbert MacDonald and Sparks Sorlein of the Crimson will be strong put in the 100 yard dash to beat Larry Scanlon of Holy Cross and Ken Clapp of Brown. Zeimetz of Boston College will be a threat in the 100 and also the broad jump...
This week the monarch whom the elaborate-tongued Iranians often call "Most Lofty of Living Men," "Agent of Heaven in this World," "Brother of the Moon and Stars," will drive down Teheran's broad avenues, reflection of the glory of his reign, to famed Gulistan Palace. There the King of Kings will be pleased to stand in front of the $50,000,000, 17th-Century Peacock Throne and watch file past him diplomats, ministers, army officers, notables, all clasping their hands on wrists to show they carry no weapons, all bowing heads in profound deference to the August Presence...
Iran the New. By this spring thickly-populated bazaar districts were condemned and destroyed, new, broad, straight avenues plotted through once narrow, crooked streets. Magnificent, many-roomed, multistoried government buildings stood where once sagged ancient one-story huts. A handsome post-office building covering a city block has arisen and a Ministry of War Building, with sufficient space to house the general staffs of Germany, France and Great Britain at the same time, is being utilized by the ever-expanding but still relatively small Iranian staff...