Word: narrowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guilt of Innocence. The Defense Attorney tried again. He recalled how the subcontinent had been brought to freedom by good men, nonviolent men, men above superstition and narrow sectarian hatred. How could such evil come from a victory won by moral force alone...
...Discoveries. The first editorial offices were in the high-ceilinged front parlor of a narrow Victorian house on Cass Street (now North Wabash Avenue). Tiny Editor Monroe sat hidden behind a rolltop desk, bobbing up into view every time the door opened, sinking down again to lose herself in the pile of manuscripts. By 1936, when she died at 75, Miss Monroe had racked up an astonishing record of Poetry firsts: she was the first to publish T. S. Eliot's Prufrock, a satire on the effete culture of Boston ("In the room the women come and go, Talking...
...Stack, he was a Communist Party member, but that fact would never interfere with his conduct of N.M.U. business. Replied Joe Curran, who likes to talk about himself in the third person: ";Curran and Stack cannot work in the same office." When the vote was taken, it was a narrow squeak: the ouster was upheld 353 to 351. Grinned Joe Curran:"Communist control of the union is speedily slipping away...
Stokes and Hughes also ran for these posts in 1945, when they failed of election by narrow margins. Because of the small size of the Cambridge vote in off-year elections, the University vote could aid both in making up their 1945 deficits...
...narrow five-point margin separating the two elevens at the final gun can be directly pinned on spotty Crimson backfield work, both offensive and defensive...