Word: broads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eight men who occupy the first boat are invariably of similar build broad shouldered and long-limbed. In addition to these criteria, the prospective varsity oar must be endowed with coordination, large quantities of stamina, and equally generous amounts of enthusiasm, patience, and guts. But a man can have all the latter qualifications and still not become an oarsman unless he has the height to give him leverage to generate the needed power...
...France proves quite the contrary. An analysis of two full years' programs show that over two thirds of the music played was not French. A surprisingly large amount of all the music Munch programmed has seldom been played in Boston during Koussevitzky's reign. Munch has an extremely broad repertory, and there is no doubt that he will widen that of the Boston Symphony considerably. The same is true for the Harvard Glee Club, which will be singing many works for the first time in years under Munch...
...reward for 40 years of stainless service at sea, Captain Douglas R. V. Lee was given command of the $12 million Royal Mail liner Magdalena. A silent, broad-shouldered man of 59, Captain Lee planned to make two voyages in his spanking new 17,500-ton ship, then retire. After that, said his wife: "My business will be him, and his business...
First Officer Cyril Senior was at the conn, approaching Rio's broad, mountain-ringed harbor at about 15 knots when, without a hint of danger, came the sensation that strikes terror into every sailor's bones: a sharp, grinding noise forward. The 'Magdalena shuddered to a stop, hard aground on a reef so shoal that breakers creamed over...
...whole of the film transcends its parts. Crusade in Europe's true importance is that it offers to a broad part of the nation a broad, vivid view...