Word: narrowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...narrow-minded on the subject of the K.K.K. ? Would TIME say of Abe Lincoln, "once there was a mediocre storekeeper...
...almost say that this has become an international problem. It is international in fact because it is to the interest of everybody that Italians do not suffocate every hour in their narrow borders...
...born in 1834, attended private elementary school in Boston, and at ten years of age entered the Boston Public Latin School. At fifteen he went to Harvard College. In addition to the narrow classical program which he pursued in common with all boys of the Latin School, he had lessons in carpentry and wood turning which his father, whose ideas about education were as President Eliot says, "much in advance of his times," was at pains to secure for him. Although Josiah Quincy had introduced into Harvard College a certain measure of election, this had largely disappeared under the Presidency...
...Professor Wolf after describing his trip from Pasadena, "we arrived by motor at our first camp from which our actual expedition was to set out. Early the next morning we left the car and with an excellent packer-guide, saddle horses, and two pack mules, we continued up the narrow canyon of Cottonwood Creek, a roaring mountain torrent heading in numerous lakes under Mt. Langley. The trail wound steeply up between pine trees and rocks for nine miles, when we emerged from the canyon onto a sloping plateau at about 10,000 feet elevation, where the stream ran gently through...
...third day we rode some four miles upstream to one of the highest lakes. We left the stock at the lake, to feed on the meadow, and, following the trail on foot to 12,000 feet, entered the "chimney"a narrow cleft in the granite, some 150 feet wide, which extends straight up the slope for 1,000 or so feet and enables one to get through the cliffs to the upper final slope of the crest, some distance south of the summit...