Word: broads
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...practiced for weeks, preparing fair copies of Wordsworth's sonnet, Upon Westminster Bridge. The Etonians leaned heavily to 16th Century chancery-a tight, slanting, angular style brought by Vatican scribes to Elizabethan England, which avoids loops, keeps "t's" and "p's" short, uses a broad pen for contrasting thick and thin strokes...
...blood on the spot, or paralyzes it with poison from her fangs and takes it to her lair to be kept in storage. If the catch is a big, vigorous, dangerous intruder (a honeybee or a grasshopper), the spider turns her back and squirts out silk in a broad band from all her 600 spinnerets. Only when the victim is trussed up and helpless in silken swathes does Aranea tow it away to the slaughterhouse...
...Rilke barely kept from going to pieces. At 16, he finally persuaded his family to let him study the classics and go on to the university. Soon he was a well-known figure in the streets of Prague, a wraith-pale young man in a black frock coat and broad-brimmed hat, drifting vaguely along in a rapture with a long-stemmed iris he held before him like a votive candle...
...Face It. In Manhattan, a beautician bought newspaper space for an ad beginning: "Is your face too broad...
...Atlantic City last week, General Electric's broad-shouldered President Charles E. Wilson rose to grapple with the toughest problem confronting U.S. big business. The problem: How can big corporations make long-range plans to expand, provide more jobs and produce more goods in the face of the Federal Government's determined attempts to break up bigness...