Word: narrowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Overseers meeting. The Overseers gave their approval to the four year plan as at present in force; that the three year case had many adherents among the members of the Board of that time, however, is proved by the fact that the new plan was defeated by a narrow margin only...
Finch, passing through the dark woods one night, hears Pheasant and Eden together, goes to tell Piers. Then Pheasant runs away to her father's house, until Renny and Piers go to bring her back to Jalna. Eden, too, flees the cold forests and the scornful, narrow fields of his bitter home. Alayne plans to return to New York and her old work, where one hopes that Renny will be her companion. Meg, the peg that holds the last of the story together, stops shuddering at the sins of Maurice...
John Paul cruised in southern seas, beat a mutinous sailor who later died. A murderer by gossip, John Paul finally set his course northward, took Jones for a last name and came to North America. In 1776 he was made a Captain in command of a flagship. A narrow elegant figure, he stood on the bridge of this vessel and set out to make the world ring with his name...
...former to dwindle to insignificance, she would have been guilty of the sin of educational simony. Instead, the governing powers of the University during the period of her most concentrated growth saw that the only New England principles to be discarded in favor of others were those of a narrow nature; those which looked no further than the rock strewn hills and stormy coasts and which subjected the larger interests of the country to provincial considerations. What was best in the small New England college would serve more than adequately as the basis of a large representative university...
Small Balloon. One Leo Stevens rode 350 miles in a 50-pound balloon. Standing in the vaselike basket, too narrow to sit down, he traveled all night from Englewood, N. J. to the vicinity of Saranac Lake, N. Y. Releasing the hydrogen, he put the bag and basket on his back, and walked to the nearest railroad station...