Word: broads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...belief that under this new constitutional practice the President should in every fourth year, insofar as seems reasonable, review the existing state of our national affairs and outline broad future problems, leaving specific recommendations for future legislation to be made by the President about to be inaugurated." Having settled that matter of precedent, Franklin Roosevelt settled down to what appeared to be almost such a workaday enumeration of the problems confronting the Government as Calvin Coolidge used to give. Chief difference was that the Roosevelt voice cloaked them with an aura of statesmanship. He mentioned that he would ask Congress...
...played at a gala theatrical evening for the royal couple, while Dutch indignation sent speeding to Berlin an extremely stiff note in which Her Majesty's Government demanded that the German Government make its press mind its manners. Scheduled to appear at the gala were some broad Dutch comedians famed for an act in which the chief funster appears as Kaiser Wilhelm II, then strips off gold lace, upturned mustaches and so forth until he finally ends in a plain uniform and smudge mustache as Adolf Hitler. At the last minute this political Dutch clowning was killed...
...week when told that he had won. Said he: "Stop kidding me. Where did Owens finish then?" Said Jesse Owens in Havana, where, having just won a race against a horse (TIME, Jan. 4), he was preparing to try to better his own world's record for the broad jump: "I'm glad the best...
When British scientists get together, they like to speculate and philosophize. take a "broad view," argue publicly and sometimes acrimoniously. In Atlantic City, A. A. A. S. officers and bigwigs made more theoretical and philosophical speeches than usual last week, but there was a fine display of devices to feed the traditional appetite of U. S. science for neat experiments and clever machines (see p. 50). There was a burglar alarm which fills a room with ultrashort radio waves, so that a person stepping into the room interrupts the waves and actuates the signal. There was a photoelectric meter which...
...night sky, but it started from below the eleventh magnitude. Famed Nova Herculis of 1934 became one of the twelve brightest stars, but it started from the 14th magnitude. If Gamma becomes a nova, starting from the first or second magnitude, it will be brilliantly visible in broad daylight. And imaginative persons have suggested that the outpouring of injurious ultraviolet radiation may be so strong that human beings would have to carry umbrellas coated with lead before venturing under the glare of "Nova Cassiopeiae." Other highlights of the astronomers' convention: Nos- 60, 61, 62. In the sun hydrogen, helium...