Word: breadth
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...Business School should be able to learn the routine of his job during this period of personal probation, and since his object is to get promoted out of routine work into a position of executive or administrative responsibility, we spend our time in the School giving him the breadth of training needed to qualify him for promotion. We aim to equip our men so that they can keep out of narrow business pockets and make themselves broadly useful, but at the same time we seek thoroughness of training by insisting on some field of concentration leading to a business career...
...traditions, in the case of an institution of learning, are great assets. A great and loyal body of alumni scattered throughout the length and breadth of the land helps to explain the wide scope of Harvard's appeal. At any rate a freshman class recruited from 43 states ought to prove a pretty fair melting-pot of broad Americanism. --Boston Herald...
...which will bring the complete election returns to the Living Room of the Union tomorrow night from 7.30 on, will be connected with the Western Union's office in Boston, where the returns are manifolded and sent out all over New England as they come from the length and breadth of the country through the combined Associated Press and Westerns Union service. The returns will probably be later this year on account to the increase in ballots caused by the women's votes. The University Band will play at intervals throughout the evening until 11 o'clock. The Union will...
...founded both Virginia and Massachusetts to which we owe the best that we have, the best that we are, the best that we can be today. I only purpose to give a brief outline of our history. To write history as it should be written demands of the historian breadth of mind and passion for truth, scholarship, idealism and infinite patience. Also an independence of mind bent on truth...
...courage and fighting ability, demonstrated during this trial, led to his being chosen to lead the forces of good government in 1910 against the powerful political machine controlled by the Southern Pacific Railroad. He gave up his law practice and entered earnestly into the fight, running the length and breadth of the vast state in an automobile and speaking in every city, town and hamlet. In every speech he promised that-if he were elected he would immediately oust the railroad from its political connections and give the government of the state into the hands of the voters...