Word: narrowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Narrow & Deep. Yet it was not until 1909, six years before his death (at 91), that Fabre first attracted wide popular attention in his native France. In the U.S., although respect for him in scientific circles has always been deep, popular readership has been comparatively narrow; the only U.S. translations of his works are lengthy studies of single insects, published about the time of World War I. This week the publication of The Insect World of J. Henri Fabre (Edited by Edwin Way Teale; Dodd, Mead, $3.50) gave English-speaking readers their first full view of the patient Provengal scientist...
...Lucia Ladanca lives in a semi-basement room at No. 3 Via Fratelli Bandieri, a narrow, cobblestoned street swarming with seminaked children. She had first told her story to Correspondent William Rospigliosi of our bureau last spring. When I arrived, she had just received two letters from TIME readers. One, from Mrs. Betty Jane Davidson, of Bluefield, West Virginia, said that a food package was on its way and asked for shoe and clothing sizes for everybody in the family. The other, from Bernice Sherman, of Bolton Landing, N.Y., also asked for clothing measurements...
Once a year British miners throng into the medieval town of Durham (pop. 16,000) in northeastern England for what they call the "Miners' Gala" (pronounced gayler). Last week nearly half a million squeezed through the narrow streets to the race course beneath the castle. They heard Labor Party leaders defiantly answer the Tory Party's bid for votes. The Durham gala, which began in 1861 with a protest march against dangerous conditions in the pits, is always a living symbol of the bitter class consciousness of British labor. This year-was no exception...
...morning last week Arana drove out to Lake Amatitlan, twelve miles south of Guatemala City, to inspect a store of government arms. When he started back, gunmen trapped his car in the middle of a narrow, arched bridge, then opened up with machine guns. Arana and two companions were killed...
Flushed by his narrow escapes and tumultuous ovations, Nehru threw a farewell bouquet to Calcuttans: "I should like to express my deep gratitude . . . not only for my warm welcome . . . but for the perfect order that prevailed . . . Calcutta is ... a peaceful city of busy folk carrying on their professions and avocations, while just a few anti-social elements cause trouble...