Word: narrowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Whitbeck '29, playing number two position on the University team lost his match by a narrow margin after taking the first game, while Hooe of the Boat Club and S. B. Meyers '29, played five games with the Harvard man losing the deciding game...
...April 18 instead of April 19; the second's that the British troops on their way out to Lexington in the dawn of that day were landed near the present Court buildings in East Cambridge, or as it was then known at Lechmere's Point and crossing on the narrow causeway over what was then the wide tidal estuary of Miller's river made their way to Union Square, Somerville, whence they proceeded by what is now Beacon Street, Somerville, reached Massachusetts Avenue or Menotomy Road, by Beech Street proceeded to Arlington Centre then known as the Village of Menotomy...
Carl Edgar Mapes of Grand Rapids, Mich., might have been a pastor or Y. M. C. A. executive. But he learned the law and trod a narrow path into Congress 15 years ago. His domed forehead, neat eyeglasses and bland face are often seen presiding over the Committee of the Whole in the Speaker's absence for he is an excellent, patient parliamentarian. The other Michigan men usually vote as he suggests...
...thin, undulating, crumbling. The shattered bones of the gangling creature stretched 26 feet; projecting from the body were four chipped, broken appendages. These, the paleontologists decided, had been paddles. They noted with delight that the creature had had three eyes, the third in the middle of its small, narrow head. They classified it as a plesiosaurus,* a marine reptile which perished in the waters covering the spot perhaps 100 or 200 million years...
...Kolster's beam differs from Guglielmo Marconi's. In the Marconi system a number of wires at each side of the sending antennae keep the waves from spraying sideways, but not from up-&-down. It is not properly a beam at all. It is a very narrow sheet of short waves that go around the earth like a ruff. They suffer the same troubles, in less degree, that the diffuse long waves...