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Word: narrowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tell his favorite story, about a cow in China during the Boxer Rebellion. This cow belonged to the Hoovers and they cherished her because good rich milk WAS rare then and there. Some predatory Germans took the cow. Forth-went the Hoovers leading their cow's small calf through narrow streets, punching and-prodding it into a grief-stricken moo-oo-ooing. Mother cow, hidden behind walls, heard the call of her young and mooed back maternally. Out rushed the Germans?and took away the calf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hoover & Smith | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...concerned they are not to marry people in church who have not been baptized. I have been criticized and called a narrow-minded ecclesiastic, and been told that I ought to be stopped. Well, stop me. I am going on until I am stopped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Go to a Register . . . | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...Playwright George Middleton. But Jo Davidson did not appear. From 7 o'clock in the evening until 4 o'clock in the morning he kept a cold vigil by the entrance of the Anderson Galleries while workmen gingerly engineered his ponderous statue through a portal which was almost too narrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: La Follette in Marble | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...geology, government and institutions and amusements of New York, and of the various pleasant excursions which could be made in that vicinity. The gazette states that although "the streets of the ancient or lower part; at the south end of the island, were irregular, many of them are narrow and crooked, with little adaptation to the ground, or to the convenience or elegance of the city, the northern part was laid out in much better taste. Many of these streets were very spacious, ran in right lines, and were intersepted by others at right angles. And the quays and wharves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Baker Library Exhibit Includes Early American Year Book--Cut Illustrates May Day Moving Confusion | 2/1/1929 | See Source »

...made up on a diversified basis. All classes of students, all fields of study, will be united in one House, and it is the duty of the various tutors to invite, not only their tutees, but the tutees of their colleagues into their apartments for gatherings, thus eliminating all narrow educational restrictions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DUTIES OF HOUSE TUTORS OUTLINED | 2/1/1929 | See Source »

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