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Word: narrowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many Americans all right. Other manys narrow like shoe string, because don't can see other people standpoint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 30, 1928 | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

President Lowell's report, issued today, is no exception. Once again he has wandered beyond the narrow interests of Harvard men to consider American education in its wider significance. Statistics and figures there are, but the discussion and comments on the trends of education at Harvard and elsewhere are what give this report its true importance, make it part of the history of education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESIDENT LOWELL'S REPORT | 1/27/1928 | See Source »

Shifting his gaze out of the window and to politics, the Mayor turned his guns on the people of the land. "We've been too narrow in lots of our views. We don't care what a fellow is as long as he pays his bills, no matter what church he goes to. Country's too big for bigotry. I'm gonna run for something else if I don't get hit down before...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Bossy" Gillis Is Mayor of Newburyport When He Answers the Telephone-"Big Gun" Fires Volley at National Politics | 1/25/1928 | See Source »

...Americas journeyed last week to La Habana, the ancient, the rich and golden, the fair and queenly Cuban city of 500,000 souls. Last week she became again what the Spanish conquerors called her, La Llave del Nuevo Mundo "The Key of the New World." Down narrow streets, through which once swaggered the conquistadors, modern statesmen strolled with ingratiating mien, at that same Palace in La Habana from which lorded "Captains General" in the proud name of Spain, there stopped last week, briefly and peaceably, Calvin Coolidge, El Presidente De Los Estados Unidos. The Pan-American Conference (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pan-American | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

...some time "The Student Vagabond" has been giving me a steadily increasing pain in the neck, which has now reached the point where I am going to say something about it. Whoever he is, he displays a narrow spread of vision in his choice of subjects, to say the least. It is quite obvious that he is concentrating in history and literature, and that his two friends are in fine arts and philosophy. Thus far this year there have been, to the best of my knowledge, one reference to a lecture in the division of music, one reference...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 1/20/1928 | See Source »

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