Word: broaching
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There are only 40,000 people in Broach, 200 miles north of Bombay. But Broach, in the heart of the cotton district, hums with spinning and weaving mills, gins, oil presses...
Seldom or never before has the representative of a Great Power made-up-as-he-went-along such vital words. Broach ing the problem of how the numbers of soldiers should be reduced, Mr. Gibson said, speaking of the Draft Convention over which the Commission has been dawdling for years (TIME, April...
...Arabia, Allah was the only god and he, Mohammed, was His rasul (prophet). The powerful Koreish clan in Mecca scowled. Mohammed's friends, now dubbed Moslems (traitors) found it best to keep his revelations secret. It was four years before their number was great enough for him to broach his mission openly in Mecca...
...Nardossy," queried the Chief Magistrate, Judge Toereky, "how did it happen that you conspired with Prince Ludwig Win-disch-Graetz? How did he ever dare to broach this stupendous plan of forgery to you, the Chief of Police of Budapest...
...first speaker for the University, will hold as his chief contention that education ossifies the mind. F. W. Lorenzen '28 intends to enlarge on the evil of specialization which has grown out of the modern educational system. The last speaker for the affirmative, D. W. Chapman '27, will broach the issue in a somewhat more humorous vein. His arguments are based on the assumption that people are becoming too educated to be either comfortable or agreeable. He is also going to decry the decay of modern literature, putting the responsibility for this decline on the development of education...