Word: narrowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course at Annapolis. Those whose illusions concerning the virile midshipman, puissant hero of the boxing ring, the gridiron and the crows nest of a cruiser battling a nasty northwestern, have been shattered are warned against visualizing future admirals in knickers wielding mashles. There are some things, which a narrow deck and a heaving ocean will not permit. Golf might be said to come under the general category...
Four out of five cars had closed bodies, for the most part hung low. Radiators were high & narrow, hoods large, front fenders flaring. People who tried sitting in the cars found them roomy & comfortable. On dashboards was this and that to make driving less worrisome. On the bottoms of almost every car were four-wheel brakes...
Nicaraguans in smart khaki uniforms and armed with rifles, machine guns and dynamite bombs, lay in ambush on the heights commanding a narrow defile in the Nicaraguan mountains. Soon Captain Richard Livingston, U. S. M. C., commenced to lead through the defile an expeditionary force of 200 U. S. Marines, 200 Nicaraguan National Guardsmen, and 200 pack mules. Purpose: To capture Quilali, the remote war base of the recalcitrant General Augusto Calderon Sandino whose men were ambushing the defile. Reason: The Sandino troops have been declared outlaws and bandits. Cause: Sandino and his men were the only Nicaraguan faction which...
...Crompton, England, a large stupid cow waddled into a candy shop. The man of the shop beat the cow, tugged its horns, pushed its hindquarters, fed the cow candy. At this the cow waddled into the narrow doorway and got stuck. The man of the shop poured whiskey into the cow's mouth. Then the cow mooed, wriggled out of the doorway and walked away...
...annual report to the trustees of Columbia University, besides a startling appeal to the people to discharge their debt for the services of the colleges by a clause in their wills, President Nicholas Murray Butler attacked the narrow specialization of graduate students. "The insistence that a teacher . . . must be able to produce a degree of Master of Arts or even Doctor of Philosophy," he said, "can only result in multiplying many times over the number of graduate students at American universities, while bringing them to look upon their university residence and work as a penance to be endured. Such artificial...