Word: broads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...broad, bright daylight-no time for alarm, let alone tragedy. Yet radio receivers in United Air Lines offices at Salt Lake City, Denver and San Francisco crackled out a message pregnant with fear: "United 608 sending blind [i.e., calling any station because of emergency]. We have baggage afire aboard this airplane. We are going into Bryce. Don't know if the fire is out yet. We have a smoke-filled airplane...
...extracurricular time spent in settlement houses can hardly lie in sentimental memories. The enduring value will consist in that measure of social perspective--of understanding the underdog--that must accompany intellectual preparations for democratic living. It is during College, declares James Ford '05, former associate professor of Sociology, that "broad human contacts" must enter a man's development. "Postponement until graduation," he wrote in 1940, "is unsafe, for sympathy so long held in check may become atrophied. A man's character is the sum of his habitual responses and each year it becomes more difficult to change...
Reeves speaks from experience when be says the huge mahogany conveyance, topped off with a high coach seat attracts a lot of attention. He predicted yesterday that it would require a municipal parade permit to take the convey- ance out of the store in broad daylight...
...reply, confident Barney Samuel, who is not wasting much energy campaigning, cried: "Mud-slinger." The response of voters was much livelier. Attendance at Dilworth street rallies zoomed from 50 to 3,000 (for one rally last week, a crowd of 7,500 jammed the busy intersection of Chestnut and Broad). Dilworth himself was not the only attraction. At rallies he was often preceded by Hegeman's string band, one of Philadelphia's famed Mummers'Parade organizations. His family went campaigning with him-and turned out to be just as belligerent as he. Once his wife, Ann, smacked...
...Whole Men." When Botanist Sinnott took over famed Sheffield School two years ago, it became a graduate school only. But he is partly responsible for Yale's recent decision to require undergraduate liberal arts students to take broad courses in the goals and methods of science; and to require science majors to study the humanities...