Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decision to pull out of Mukden came during an emergency conference called by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek with his top generals in Peiping. The meeting was followed by the government's recapture of Yingkow, opening a seaport and a narrow, 100-mile corridor from the Mukden pocket (TIME...
...spring, a young man's fancy; in the fall, woolly bear caterpillars have a brown band in their midriffs. If the brown band is wide, it will be a mild winter. If the brown band is narrow, the winter will be a freezeroo. So countrymen in the northeastern states have believed...
...year ago, Dr. C. Howard Curran, curator of insects and spiders at New York's American Museum of Natural History, took a look at the woolly bear caterpillars and noted that they all had narrow bands. Sure enough, along came last winter's big snow and ice storms. Curran decided to take another look at woolly bears...
...items, drivers must look to the city for action. Why the big triangle above the Square and the wide intersection below Claverly cannot be opened for parking remains a mystery which even fire safety officials cannot clear up. These gentlemen, who apparently feel that apparatus can get through the narrow, always crowded streets of the Square, could not reasonably object to parking in these areas which would not block the thoroughfare...
Straus oked out a narrow 12 to 8 decision over Thayer "South." Hugh Raphael hit Tom Fraher and Fran McCoy with touchdown serials to give Straus both its scores, while Jack Murphy heaved a six-pointer to Jack Kreps for the Southmen of Thayer. The losers also got two points in the last quarter on a safety when Kreps nabbed Raphael behind the goal...