Word: broads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attempt to give a topical horror story broad human appeal, the show at worst falls at times into cliché; it does not start with it. Distinguished merit West Side Story lacks; but its distinguishing merit, its putting choreography foremost, may prove a milestone in musical-drama history...
...embarrassing record (two victories, eight losses) by beating powerful Purdue, 12-0. Columbia, long practiced in the art of losing gracefully, upset Ivy League predictions by whipping Brown, 23-20. Michigan State ran out of substitutes while eating up Indiana, 54-0. Texas Christian, riding on the broad shoulders of Halfback Jimmy Shofner, upset Ohio State, 18-14. While Georgia Tech settled for a scoreless tie with S.M.U., Auburn beat Tennessee, 7-0, and moved into the front of the race for the Southeast Conference championship...
...Nebuchadnezzar rumbled down from the north to pillage.* When he withdrew, after raids in 598 and 587 B.C., the people of Gibeon must have found their city wrecked and the pool contaminated. Apparently they tumbled in boulders from the town's wreckage, then filled the well's broad stone shaft with earth, clay and bits of pottery...
...exciting finds of pottery that this year he began to pay premium rates to 100 native diggers, set them to work two shifts a day hauling out debris in baskets made of old auto tires. In short order they had dug past the well's first stage-a broad shaft cut out of limestone 33 ft. deep, faced with a spiral staircase. Then the diggers excavated a narrower tunnel with steps cut in its side to reach a broad water-drawing room 82 ft. below the surface...
Berelson, who has been director of the Ford Foundation's behavioral sciences program, will consider the objectives, standards, and functions of the graduate schools in the American system of higher education. He will make a broad review of the history of graduate education and its institutions in order to locate and interpret major trends and active issues...