Word: narrowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...passageways under the bridge at present are low and inconveniently narrow for the passing shells. Navigation is made doubly difficult by the fact that a low railroad bridge of piles runs diagonally from one corner and makes it necessary to go under both structures. This will be done away with under the new construction, which provides for the cutting of the railroad at the middle of the bridge, thus leaving only one channel to be traversed...
...game yesterday only went to five innings and resulted in another victory for Team A by the narrow score of 1 to 0. A real pitcher's battle made the contest one of the most spectacular which has been staged on the field this year. Both Solomon Andrews '27, who did the mound honors for the first team, and Spalding, who was in the box for the seconds, were in rare form, although, the Team A man far outshone his more experienced rival...
...Kane '23, who captained the 1923 University crew and rowed last year on the Oxford crew, said of the new boat, "There is no reason to fear for the new Harvard shell in rough water. It is narrow, but not so narrow as the one which found such difficult going on the Thames Saturday. It is modeled, rather, after the 1923 Oxford boat which weathered some very bad blows. I don't believe that the lines of the shell were completely responsible for the Oxford swamping. Watermanship and the outside the figured considerably...
...Grant '73, retiring president of the Harvard Club of Boston, formerly president of the Harvard Alumni Association and Board of Overseers, maintains in an article appearing in the Alumni Bulletin published today, that there is no foundation for the criticism of the Harvard Overseers as a materialistic group of "narrow-mintled Bostonians" and Wall Street bankers or corporation lawyers...
...fast six-period game in the Commonwealth Armory on Saturday evening, the Freshman polo team defeated the Yale 1928 riders by the narrow score of 7 to 6. In spite of the fact that the Freshman trio was a more or less impromptu organization and had played no games previously this year, it was able to finally overcome its more experienced opponents. The game was closely contested and in doubt as to the outcome up to the last shukker...