Word: broads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afternoon last week a shining Lockheed Lodestar settled on to the broad runway at Daniel Field, a wartime bomber base in Augusta, Ga. Out of the plane stepped a smiling man whose arrival three years ago would have brought the whole big base to crackling attention. Gasped an airline stewardess: "It's Ike Eisenhower...
...broad strokes of the brush would paint the portraits of all the early Presidents with this exception, and a few more strokes would answer for any member of their cabinets; but Jefferson could be painted only touch by touch, with a fine pencil, and the perfection of the likeness depended upon the shifting and uncertain flicker of its semi-transparent shadows...
...Broad jump--Won by Kumple (H); 2, Maze (BU); 3, Carter (H); 4, Thayer (H). Distance: 22 feet, 5 3/4 inches...
Hammer (1:30)--Felton, Thorndike Ward; high jump (2:00)--Harrigan, Jenkins; pole vault (2:00)--Lockett, Lawrence, Torrey; broad jump (2:00)--Thayer, Kumpel; discus (2:30)--Felton, Cameron, Tootell; javelin (3:00)--Trimble, Holbrook, von Saltza; shot put (3:30)--Trimble, Tootell...
...Broad Jump--Won by Thayer (H); 2, Kumpel (H); 3, Benesch (RIS). Distance: 22 feet...