Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Pope's broad tolerance and apprecia- tion in the study of art carried over to his painting. The Vose exhibit shows he was a painter who possessed unusual versatility of taste and skill. The showing includes samples of Pope's charcoal portraits, portraiture in oils, and several of his landscapes...
...generations, the Wadsworths of New York's green Genesee Valley have lived in an ancient brick mansion near the town of Geneseo and farmed the broad acres around it. Ever since the American Revolution, they have also helped to fight the nation's wars and make the nation's laws. One James S. Wadsworth left the Genesee Valley in 1861 to serve as a Union general. His son, and namesake, served in Congress for 20 years. His grandson, the third James Wadsworth, did just what his ancestors would have expected...
...answer, which this week became published policy, was broad and sweeping. Unlike the big Rockefeller Foundation ($123 million) and Carnegie Corp. of New York ($173 million), the Fords would skip specific scientific, medical and public-health projects. Instead, they would try to find new designs for human relationships which would match the assembly-line achievements of the machine age. One suggested field of endeavor, described in a prime sample of sociological gobbledygook: "The mitigation of tensions which now threaten world peace...
...high-soaring charter laid in a frame of thought and expressed in a UNESCO-like lingo that probably would have outraged well-ballasted old Henry Ford, who always mistrusted charity anyway. But with Paul Hoffman's clear-eyed business head, and the trustees' broad-gauge faith, it had a good chance of coming down to earth...
...success in ending the war between Israel and her Arab neighbors, broad-shouldered Dr. Ralph Johnson Bunche had been showered with 40 awards and medals and 20 honorary academic degrees. One afternoon last week as Bunche, now senior director of the U.N. Trusteeship Department, was eating lunch in the delegates' dining room at Lake Success, his British secretary Mrs. Doreen Daughton dashed up with news of another honor. "I have a surprise for you," she told Ralph Bunche. "You've won the Nobel Peace Prize...