Word: narrowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Christianity comes to Asia in a spirit of arrogant superiority and an attitude of narrow exclusiveness. Thousands of missionaries who are sent here at great expense, when confining their activities to language teaching, are not unwelcome, but as religions teachers their presence is an implied insult to the great moral and religious forces built by our noble civilization...
Harvard was given its first collegiate fencing defeat when Columbia beat the University fencing team by a score of 8 to 5 at the Hemenway gymnasium on Saturday afternoon. The visitors won by narrow five to four margin with the foils, but took the epee event with ease winning three out of four matches...
...what for an issue between Democrats and Republicans? It has been many times asserted that the Democrats are trying very hard to force an issue. They attempted last week to lay hold on one by ordering an investigation of the Aluminum Co. of America. They failed by a narrow margin...
About twenty-five years ago, when the building of the Charles River dam stabilized rowing conditions, Harvard rowing men began looking forward to the day when the wooden-pile bridges along the river with their single narrow openings would be replaced by arched bridges allowing several crews to race under them...
President James Rowland Angell's annual report was published. This voiced the current conviction of administrators that college is at once too easy and too narrow for the student. President Angell placed his blame back on the preparatory schools and the parents; declared that young men should be graduated from college at least two years younger (at 19); deplored "lockstep" systems and indicated intensity as the desirable concomitant to more liberal teaching methods. The general tenor of the report was, "Give them liberty, but give them work." Interesting specifications were: "Too long and possibly too many vacations. . . . Too many...