Word: widely
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...large picture of Turner's middle period, representing a wide expanse of sea with a flat bottom boat ferrying passengers to a packet with sails spread. These two boats form a large mass in the centre of the picture, while, on the left, a buoy floating on the crest of the wave and a group of small boats in the middle distance are balanced by a single sailboat and the pier and city of Calais, seen in the extreme distance at the right. The near point of view chosen by the artist permits of every detail in the two boats...
...minor (perhaps it may soon be major) sport was welcomed into the University last night by the thousand students who packed the Living Room of the Union. The promotion of any addition to our already wide field of extra-curriculum activities requires both perseverance and a careful sizing up of opportunities. And to have done this in so popular a way as to attract more spectators, than have witnessed any other intercollegiate contest proves both the ability of the managers and the existence of a good opening for this new sport...
...these two have developed an unusually good short passing game. Against them Harvard sends a speedy pair in Percy and Baker. Percy, with his skating, stick-work, and lightning shots, is the most brilliant performer in the forward line, with the one fault of shooting high and sometimes wide. Baker, who has taken Curtis' place, is a very heady player, uses his body well, and is extremely good with his stick...
...trained by the Connecticut Aircraft Company and will be allowed to use the new dirigible balloon which that company has recently constructed for the United States Navy. It is the first such balloon which has been constructed for the Navy. The balloon itself is 175 feet long, 35 feet, wide and 50 feet high, including the car. It is propelled by a 150 horse-power Sturtivant motor which drives two propellors of the swivel type. It is capable of carrying a crew of eight men and a useful load of two thousand pounds. The balloon can rise either from...
...suggested that, inasmuch as the names of the better known recent members of the University still have some currency among present undergraduates, it would be of value to keep the lists already posted up to date. For, except in the case of men who have achieved wide fame, the names of graduates of the last few years mean more to present occupants than those of twenty or more years...