Word: narrowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sprints should go to Harvard by a very narrow margin, although Cooley of Exeter is no man to be left out of the reckoning. The Crimson star, Burns, however, is picked to hold his own against any of his opponents...
Eight men from Columbia, eight from Pennsylvania, eight from Yale, seated on sliding seats in three narrow boats, lined up on the windless Schuylkill at Philadelphia. The issue of the race was, curiously, in some doubt. The fact that Columbia had small chance was well recognized. But the famed Yale crew, the same which vanquished the world on the Seine, was gone. Only three men of that machine were left-Kingsbury, No. 6; Wilson, No. 3; Sprock, No. 7. Pennsylvania was beautifully schooled, perfect in form. Nobody thought of Columbia. The race began. Pennsylvania led. Yale was second, rowing with...
...Small, Maynard ($2.50). He who writes for him who reads as he runs must learn to write as he runs. For the latter's assistance, there is the who-what-where-when-how formula for first paragraphs, with its variations peculiar to various copy-desks. But within the narrow confines of a formula, triteness is escapable only by the unusually agile-minded reporter. The editors of this anthology have selected 70 examples of such agility -straight reporting, foreign correspondence, sport, "features," human interest, interviews and personality stories from "the vast and sprawling newspaper field,'' apologizing for necessary...
...spite of these lapses from the narrow path of duty, the morale of the service is high, and all indications point to quick results. Any day may bring the news from Captain Jacobs that until sources and supplies of liquor have been entirely bottled...
...links and courts. Tennis is revealed to be the favorite sport of 23 per cent of the class, topping by a comfortable margin football, which is favored by only 11 per cent. Football is also superseded in popularity by golf, which, favored by 12 per cent, triumphs by the narrow margin of one point...