Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Freshmen are living in the gym now. This is unfortunate, but it is something that has happened to the two freshman classes before yours. It never lasts past the middle of October. In your ancient Yard dormitory cubicle, you may consider your self only slightly more fortunate. The high, narrow rooms may cramp you and the squeaking floors disturb your study. But remember, next year you will probably move into the much newer and more luxurious Houses along the river. Even as incipient carnal knowledge, the best course of action towards the housing situation is to relax and enjoy...
...vote counting began, Stevenson got a narrow lead; but his backers' jubilation was soon quenched. Twenty-four hours after the polls closed, with 900,000 votes in, he had only an eight-vote margin. Then Johnson passed him, ran up a 717-vote lead...
...because of pressing unemployment they wrote: "We would humbly point out that there is no road between Arsoli and Cervara [a nearby town]. The path is so narrow that a mule can hardly get through. While you take your time to solve the urgent question of our water, please advance funds to build a road and employ our idle young men. We respectfully submit that these young men have nothing to put in their kitchen pots, and their parents are pained to see them grow up as wastrels." Back came Rome's answer: "Start work at once. The government...
...production of goods to the study of those fundamental phenomena which are the wellsprings out of which man's mastery of his environment flows. We have failed to see the great difference between physical and intellectual production. Are we becoming nut tighteners and wrench wielders . . . strait-jacketed . . . within narrow disciplines...
...highly specialized animal ... is practically in equilibrium with all phases of his environment... Is something similar, perhaps, happening to the scientist? Is the specialist, in the confines of his narrow discipline, failing to accept the challenge of unfamiliar territory, to risk the uncertainties and the tensions of coupling and interconnecting the many aspects of science? ... If this is so, he is no longer a true scientist...