Word: narrowed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...yellow menace, especially to denote Japan, is often on the lips of Caucasian alarmists. The external formidability of Japan and the obvious straights of her population, so pent within narrow islands, have given her, in the words of social prophets a predatory future. They have seen the damn erected against the yellow millions by the coast states of America as only a truce and postponement of the inevitable inundation. The actuality of these dismal prospects is for scholars of the subject to ascertain. But a bit of recent news from Asia suggests that the armor of the east rings...
...world knows a certain horse-jawed, long-nosed, highbrowed countenance with deep cheek grooves beside the wide mouth; eyes hooded, alert and slanting slightly downward into a squint at the outside corners; the high, narrow cranium flanked by lean temples and longish ears. It is not an uncommon face in the U. S. but a single man brought its fame far above the fame of many another face-Woodrow Wilson. Today the type is perhaps best seen in onetime Editor Edward W. Bok of the Ladies' Home Journal, who last week bestowed $150,000 upon Princeton University...
...Name two U. S. citizens who took pleasure in possessing similar jaws, brows, cheek grooves, hooded eyes, narrow crania, lean temples, longish ears...
...Haven, May 23,--By taking a 6 to 3 victory from Yale here yesterday Princeton won the Big Three tennis title. The Tiger netmen had already triumphed over Harvard by the narrow margin of one point...
That solitude possesses an appeal has been a subject of poem and prose from classical times. The wide expanse of loneliness to be found in forests and mountains every year draws a throng form the cities. Even the narrow isolation for one's room is sometimes a welcome relief from the competitive chatter of fellow collegians. When melancholy descends upon the soul, whether caused by a surfeit of real suffering, an unlovely letter, or the failure of some finesse, retreat from neighborly jostling often heals the hurt quickly...