Word: narrowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...went back to Granite Falls and resumed his practice. Last fall he was appointed legal aid to the prohibition administrator in Minnesota. Now in the Postoffice Building in St. Paul,**** one may go up a narrow hall and into a bare, brownish room. Piles of pamphlets lie on the floor. At one end is a table desk. Behind it sits a slight, stoop-shouldered, mild man with heavy grey mustaches and a bush of grey hair, through which he has a habit of running his fingers. A gold watchchain is twisted through a buttonhole of his dark vest, and dangles...
...these changes is the final ruling, the decision to lay greater emphasis upon qualities of character personality, and promise. If the function of a college be the development of the complete man, it follows that an admission system based purely upon success in written examination is built on too narrow a foundation. The new policy is therefore a logical deduction from the Platonic ideal of human development...
...Poetry itself is listed for discussion this afternoon, when Professor Elton takes up Horace in Comparative Literature 29. There is something very satisfying, too, about going into Sever 17 at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. To jam with hundreds in the morning through a narrow door is merely academic at best, but to enter Sever in such dreadful solitude as this is aesthetic...
...shook his finger in Mr. Upshaw's face: "You prohibitionists are narrow and intolerant and I with many others resent the invasion of my personal rights by people like you. I ask you to follow God's plan. You can't improve...
Even professors get the Wanderlust at times and stray from the straight and narrow of their academic paths. Professor Young has left his own rostrum to shed light on international matters in Geneva but at 9 o'clock this morning he is going to visit Economics 2 in Harvard 1, where he will discuss the problems of money and banking in England that were caused by the wandering around Europe of Corsica's most famous citizen. It is only fair for me to make the retort courteous to my most illustrious disciple and vagabond with...