Word: narrowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...machine of Eli Whitney† was the cotton gin. Slender teeth mounted on a revolving cylinder, like the pins on a Swiss music box, pulled cotton through a series of narrow slots. Cotton seed could not pass through the slots; cotton fibres were effectively cleaned. Where a slave picked clean one pound of lint a day, Eli Whitney's gin cleaned 50 pounds...
...inexhaustible propensity of U. S. people to sit and look on was heavily exploited last Saturday. Millions of football folk sat on narrow benches under the tingling October wind, hardening themselves for the real tests of November. Fur coats were given their earliest workouts, wind-defying cosmetics were tested, feet tapped tentatively on chill concrete against the afternoons when they will be all but frozen. Six hundred thousand by authentic estimate crammed themselves around the 15 leading games ?Notre Dame-Navy, Penn-Penn State, and Stanford-Southern California assembling 60,000 each...
...obvious to everyone that education is a process of accumulation, not alone of knowledge in the narrow sense, but of experiences. It is a natural process which will take place automatically as long as inquisitiveness and acquisitiveness exist. If the education is obtained in schools, it is directed, orderly accumulation-the facilitation of which is the reason for schools. In schools the problem arises how to get the subject matter of such courses as "History I" into the mental accumulation of the student when his natural inquisitiveness lies not in that direction. Yet such courses must be passed before...
...problems of Australia, a country with a Pacific civilization but a place in the British Commonwealth, were shown to be of a very difficult and internal nature when one takes into consideration the fact that her civilized area is nothing but a narrow strip encircling an area of waste land comparable in size to the United States...
...planked ceilinged room in which a table was set for 50, he noted the portrait of Samuel Johnson by Sir Joshua Reynolds that adorns a space above the fireplace and he noted, too, the heavily timbered windows that shut out much of what little light streams in from the narrow Wine Office Court, a lane hardly more than three feet wide, on which the Cheshire Cheese abuts...