Word: narrowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York Harbor. Long before the hero touched foot on the island of Manhattan, the air was full of shrieks, confetti and shredded ticker tape. Twelve thousand police carried no clubs; but linked arms, used hands, charged on horseback to keep the crowds from absorbing the parade on narrow Broadway. At the City Hall, Mayor James J. Walker presented Colonel Lindbergh with the city Medal of Valor, said to him: "We are familiar with the editorial 'we,' but not until your arrival in Paris did we learn of the aeronautical 'we'." At Central Park the struggling grasses...
...blaze is believed to have been caused by a match carelessly thrown from the window into the narrow space dividing the frame building of the Traymore from the brick structure of the Cambridge Savings Bank. Flames suddenly burst through the wall of the restaurant and sent the diners scattering to the street. Firemen fought for half an hour to get the blaze under control...
...Atchafalaya and the Mississippi flow southward and (very roughly) parallel, and between these two rivers is a long narrow strip of land?a sort of finger of dry territory...
...Harvard crew will go into Saturday's race a favorite. The severe drubbings handed to M. I. T. and Pennsylvania by the Navy, coupled with the narrow margin of victory gained by the Annapolis oarsmen over Harvard, and the splendid showing of the Watts-stroked eight yesterday, makes it appear that Harvard will win its first victory under the regime of-Head Coach E. J. Brown '96. The crew is by no means certain of victory, however, for its opponents raced Navy early in the season and have had plenty of time to improve. Pennsylvania trailed Yale by five lengths...
...many years ago," he continued, "the Seniors here at Harvard would not even speak to the Freshmen, and as for looking at them, that was unheard of. Why, I remember when the Freshmen even stepped off the narrow side-walks in order to let Seniors pass. Do you think they would do that now? If so, you don't know the younger generation. I shall never forget how the poor Freshmen used to be treated down at Red Top (you know I have been steward down there ever since I have been connected with the Varsity Club). The players...