Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Across the broad, rich land, people also wrapped and sealed their own packages for relatives in the Old Country, or for old acquaintances from old vacation trips, or for strangers whose names they had got by chance. A portly gentleman on Boston's Beacon Hill sent off a consignment of Havana cigars to Britain. In Chicago Mrs. Herman Pierce was preparing a Christmas parcel for the daughter of her late father's niece in Germany. Mrs. Pierce and her factory-worker husband were not well off. But "we can do without a little," she explained, "to help them...
Last week, Parliament outlawed crime comics. The broad new law provides up to two years' imprisonment for anyone who "makes, prints, publishes, distributes, sells" or possesses "for any such purposes" a comic which "exclusively or substantially comprises matter depicting pictorially the commission of crimes, real or fictitious...
...deceptively fragile Lorelei. With her tremendous saucer eyes, her exaggerated mincing steps, her voice that goes suddenly Dixie and suddenly husky, and her simultaneous suggestion that butter wouldn't melt in her mouth and steel bars would bend in her hands, she is not so much a broad caricature as a pure original. She is forced to overdo the whole thing, but in such individual numbers as A Little Girl from Little Rock it richly pays...
...Weiskopf, a first in the 1000 by Dave Cairns; a close second in the 3/4 mile by Dave Gregory, who ordinarily runs a longer distance; a second in the hurdles by Charlie Durakis; a second in the 35-pound weight throw by Dick Rubin; and a third in the broad jump by Bill Geick...
...Northeastern broad jumping and high jumping star named Mazzocca will give strong BU and Harvard entries a hard time in these events...