Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mexico, former Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson has only a narrow estimated lead over Republican candidate Patrick Hurley. Elsewhere in the West, Democratic Senators Ed Johnson and James Murray are having tough battles in Colorado and Montana against polished and wellheeled opponents...
Phumiphon Aduldet, 20, King of Siam, who is going to school in Switzerland had a narrow squeak. The young Possessor of the Four-&-Twenty Golden Umbrellas* ran his Fiat smack into a truck. Out of the hospital a few days later with his cuts and bruises well on the mend, he would not know for some time whether he had permanently lost the sight of his right...
...University had been almost as grim and ascetic as its founder, François de Montmorency-Laval de Montigny, first bishop of Quebec. The bishop wore a hair shirt, watered his soup, slept on wood. The university, which De Laval started as a seminary in 1663, was cramped into narrow, grey stone buildings in Quebec City's huddled Quartier Latin. Its curriculum concentrated on theology, law and medicine. For diversion, students were expected to turn to religious reading or take meditative walks in the walled courtyard of the university...
...When we went to the Journal" says Beatrice Gould, "every women's magazine was in the same narrow rut. There was still a feeling that women's interests were confined to the home." It was a feeling the Goulds did not share. They set out to blast the Journal (then 10? a copy, with a circulation...
Every 48 Seconds. The lift began in fog and high winds. For 18 of the 24 hours the big C-47 and bigger C-54 cargo planes had to be flown on instruments through the narrow 20-mile Soviet air corridors. But the operation went off like clockwork. Every 48 seconds, on the average, a plane was landing or taking off at one of Western Berlin's two airfields (Tempelhof and Gatow). On Air Force Day thousands of Germans gathered at the Berlin fields and at the loading bases at Frankfurt and Wiesbaden. Many kept tallies of the number...