Word: narrowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...residence. New York newspapers welcomed M. Kerensky in editorials of praise, of friendship. The Herald Tribune, usually synchronous with the Administration, stated that "Kerensky will have the help and support of all good Americans," Overnight this wiry, medium-sized man, with slightly bowed legs, a cropped head, and habitually narrow, squinting eyes, seemed to have become almost a national hero to the press...
Window trimmers, decorating showrooms last week for the Cadillac Spring Salon, teetered around a new motorcar. Salesmen studied its points: plenty of nickel plate; narrow, high radiator; low, elliptical lines; 8-cylinder, V-type motor; 125-in. wheelbase; six body types- roadster, phaeton, coupé, convertible coupé, victoria and sedan. It looked like a Cadillac slightly reduced in size. It was just that-designedly the "companion car to Cadillac." And, like the Cadillac, this new model is being built by President Lawrence P. Fisher of the Cadillac Motor Car Co. for General Motors. He is one of six brothers...
...noes won by a narrow margin of nine votes in the discussion of censorship held by the Debating Union in the Living Room of the Harvard Union last night. The subject, "Resolved: That this House approves a committee for stage censorship similar to that recently proposed for New York...
...nice" way, explains Miss Millay. No fuss, tenor solo, orchestral pomposity; no sentimental worblings of lost love and noble remorse. Like a true Saxon, he quietly takes his life, "for himself," not glory or revenge. Aelfrida weeps but Eadgar says to her: "Thou hast not tears enough in thy narrow...
Certainly his theory seems to fit nicely with the general tendencies not only of history in its narrow sense, but of human activity as a whole. Even the ancient China of 500 B.C. had a romantic rebound from classicism with a feeling kindred to that of the contemporary West, and its prophet in Chuang-Tzn, the spiritual twin of Rousseau...