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Word: broads (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...field events, Bulldog Stan McDonald is favored in the broad jump, and teammates Bill Stack and Fritz Cooper should defeated injured Jim Doty in the 35-1b. Weight throw. Bill Marble is a close pick over the varsity's Henry Abbot in the shot, although another record-sized heave by Abbot could alter things...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Track Team to Attempt Yale Upset In New Haven Triangulars Today | 2/14/1959 | See Source »

This type of course preserves coherence and completeness at the expense of a broad view and general interest which the non-concentrator looks for. But even the concentrators would benefit from considering together the now-divorced writers, such as Fielding, Swift, and Johnson, without having to wade through the 17th Century romances and 18th Century letter-writers as well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English Exhumed | 2/11/1959 | See Source »

...Theoretical Division, noticed slight peculiarities about Vanguard Beta's orbit. Sometimes it moved a little slower than expected; sometimes it moved faster. Since a satellite's speed reflects the earth's gravitational pull, the changes of pace were interpreted to mean that gravitation varies over broad areas in an unexpected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Earth's Bulges | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

Besides a broad Southern accent acquired from her Tennessee upbringing. Bonnie Golightly points to some other evidence. Like Capote's Holly, she lived in a brownstone on Manhattan's fashionable East Side, with a bar around the corner on Lexington. Like Holly, she is an avid amateur folk singer with many theatrical and offbeat friends. Like Holly, Bonnie says: "I just love cats. The cat thing corresponds, and all the hair-washing and a lot of little things hither and yon." One bit of Hollyana to which Bonnie makes no claim: "I've never, absolutely never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Golightly at Law | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

...Liles, who began the season as a broad jump specialist, outdistanced Dartmouth's highly-touted Pete Daley and his own teammates as the Crimson swept the race. Liles also finished a close second in the broad jump...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Track Defeats Dartmouth Squad, 75-34 | 2/7/1959 | See Source »

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