Word: narrowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alvarotez. The cry was taken up on all sides. Leaf after leaf of the college paper was covered with wild appeals to reason, conjecturing what the future would bring forth, suggestions for a remedy of the awful situation. We can fairly see the Incas dashing up and down their narrow streets, tearing their hair, shouting "Rolo is doomed! Rolo must be stopped! Rolo revised!", holding indignation meetings on the street-corners, and filling their "press" with rivers of words. In fact the scene has been preserved to us in a remarkable rock-carving commemorating Rolo...
...practice game the Engineers were threatening, but as the scrimmage proceeded Coach Claflin's men were able to break up the M. I. T. attack in its initial stages in mid-ice. Not once were goal-tenders Higgins and Flint scored upon, although the former had one very narrow escape when an M. I. T. player got loose and had a clear shot for a goal...
...that the city of Machu Picchu was believed to have been the cradle of the ancient Inca empire, Tampu-Tocco, or "Window-Tavern". What is of most interest to us is that Dr. Bingham, at that time, conjectured that the Urubamba canyon, near which is the narrow ridge whereon Machu Picchu is situated, might be a rich field for explorers and regretted that he had not the resources to continue his excavations. The interruption of the war, however, prevented any such work being undertaken till this fall when the University of Nueva Barcelona, a Chilean institution of considerable antiquity, sent...
...finals of the Union pool tournament held last night, N. D. Tumaroff '23 defeated R. M. Clough '24 by the score of 75 to 71, winning by a narrow margin. The final outcome was doubtful until the very end of the contest when Tumaroff established a small lead on his opponent...
...tram or foot to Boston have often wondered why the ricketty structure that conveys Massachusetts Avenue across the Basin should be dignified with the name of Harvard. A few facts from history will soon clear up that point. When the College was first founded, Back Bay was a narrow neck of land lined with marshes, and the water between Boston and Newtowne (Cambridge) was a river instead of a bay. Travelers in those day did not have the convenience of a bridge; their only means of transport was a primitive cable ferry, for which a small fee was charged...