Word: broads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...field is a broad one, and if you have talented eyes and skillful hands, you will not find it difficult to develop a visual appreciation of many things from many cultures
Honors candidates must take eight courses within the field but four may be in related subjects and their range is a broad one. If a candidate for a degree wants to dispense with honors he need tackle but six courses from the department, two of them in related subjects...
...Broad Base...
...loaded with automatic recording instruments, to find out whether it lives up to the contractor's guarantees. Often a hidden defect, perhaps unknown even to the manufacturer, drags the plane out of the air. The pilot's best bet is to make an emergency landing on the broad lake. Bailing out alive from a modern jet plane is difficult; it is also part of the test pilot's code to bring the aircraft back if it is humanly possible...
...down buildings, Muroc is not an attractive place to live. But for the test pilots like Chuck, who do not have to live on the post, it is not too bad. The mountain-ringed desert, with its mourning Joshua trees, has a kind of austere beauty. On its broad plain are little oases - alfalfa farms kept green by diesel-pumped water. There is hunting and riding. When these rural pleasures pall, Los Angeles is only 70 miles away (eleven minutes as the jet flies...