Word: broading
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...brain will serve to show something of the possibilities that lurk within it. The very evening of the day on which this dream was told to me, I slept, and could conjure up no more stirring puppets with which to amuse myself, than two or three Quakers with their broad-brimmed hats, and not even one that wore a bonnet; and there I lay, while they thou'd and thee'd, until I was so tired of their chatter that I turned over and woke...
...Nation, in addition to the article which we recently published, discusses the refusal of the prayer petition in connection with President Eliot's report. In this report, it will be remembered, the president says that in studies and discipline, a broad, distinctly University policy has been followed both towards teachers and students. The startling manner in which this policy is sometimes deserted, is thus shown by the Nation...
...inaccurate;" while, by your own admission, that adjective was not wholly inappropriate, I think, on the whole, I might better have used the word "misleading." When I used the word, I was thinking, not of the trivial blunder as to the cost of the "blazers," but to the rather broad and harsh clause in which it is said that the provision of such "luxuries" as "blazers," etc., "indicates a looseness in the handling of the crew money, which it would be well to investigate more closely." It may be true that such language reflects on nobody, but, if so, language...
...standing high jump has been substituted for the running broad, in the programme of the second meeting...
...standing high jump has been substituted for the running broad jump on the programme of March...