Word: broads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Broad jump--Won by Bundy, (Y) (21 feet 9 7/8 inches); second, Grimes. (Y) 21 feet 8 1/4 inches); second, Thayer (H) (21 feet 1 3/4 inches...
...history, the College was small, well integrated, and externally disciplined. The curriculum was narrow and solid and so was the student product. The reaction against this has reached its height in the last few decades in the wide curriculum and the elective system. It is now turning out a broad but superficial product whose principal skill is that of quick retentive memory and an ability to disgorge and forget a large number of calculated generalities interlarded with a few facts--and whose intellectual interest in any field of education is highly superficial or non-existent. In a small, well-integrated...
...Americans who went were joined in Sofia by the New York Times's broad and breezy William H. Lawrence, who had come on from Bucharest. Things went swimmingly at first. A Sofia reporter met the Wall Street Journal's small, quiet Joe Evans over a drink, and was amazed. "We expected to see a bloated capitalist," he said...
Gene Harrigan gets up around six feet in the high jump, and in the broad jump Harvey Thayer appears to have established himself...
...fact that a deadlock has been allowed to drag on for seven dreary weeks is an eloquent commentary on the current state of Cambridge politics. Although elections are fought on a broad reform and anti-reform basis, there is a complete absence of party discipline among members of the same faction. Each man views his legislative duties in the light of his personal ambitions and thus obviates any hope for concerted action. The returns from the November election gave the backers of Managerial government and proportional representation a clear cut majority of five men on the City Council. It should...