Word: narrowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shipstead's Oath. So narrow seemed the margin of votes that Senate Clerk John C. Crockett was despatched to Baltimore, there to establish a precedent by swearing in a Senator for the first time outside the Senate Chamber. Senator Henrik Shipstead of Minnesota, Farmer-Laborite, had been ill with influenza and complications since before March 4. He lay in a hospital bed in Baltimore. The administration of the oath by Clerk Crockett made him eligible to cast his vote for the debenture plan. That made 47 to 47 in the informal poll, resting the issue with Louisiana...
Some 500 Democratic politicians of Manhattan last week packed into their new Tammany Hall on Union Square. For 90 minutes they milled anxiously through the reception room, the ballrooms, chewing cigars, shaking heads, muttering. Suddenly a door opened at the head of a narrow iron stairway. A man appeared and yelled out: "Curry!" Loud and long did the Tammany leaders cheer. There were free drinks that night in many a downtown speakeasy...
...ordinary airplane rises at too sharp an angle with the ground, air, which must stream sucking over the wings to support them, cannot reach enough wing surface to do its work. Consequently the plane loses flying speed. It stalls. Then it drops. The Handley Page wing contains a long narrow auxiliary wing set in its forward edge. When the main wing reaches the stalling angle, the auxiliary flaps up and suddenly presents a new surface to the wind. The wind also rushes through the space between the auxiliary and main wings. The result is that the plane is simultaneously supported...
...Frederick Handley Page invented his slot interceptor, last week announced as effectively tested. The interceptor is a second long narrow wing set just back of the slot at the main wing front. Like the auxiliary wing in front of it, it normally lies within the main wing surface. The interceptor is connected by bars to the aileron of its wing...
...hips and small chests, long legs, short arms, slim hands, feet, toes, fingers. Most were baldheaded, most wore eyeglasses. The eyes, deep-set, showed high intelligence. But most eyes showed the shiftiness of neurasthenia, sometimes the glitter of insanity. They all had high, brainy foreheads, thin skulls, prominent narrow noses, prominent chins, small mouths, rotten, few and irregular teeth. Faces were pimply, blotched and lined from organic disease...