Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...girls had been to Provincetown, Mass., in the summertime, when its narrow streets were teeming with family vacationers and hippies. In January, they returned to the Cape Cod resort during a winter-quiet weekend. Mary Ann Wysocki, a college student, and Patricia Walsh, a teacher, both 23, checked in at a guesthouse run by Patricia Morton. That night they visited three Provincetown bars. At one called the Fo'cs'l, they met Antone Costa, 24, an unemployed handyman, amateur taxidermist and divorced father of three, who was also staying at Mrs. Morton's. The girls checked...
...Crimson--though undeniably the underdog in the tournament--does have a chance against the giants of the West. Its narrow loss to Cornell in the ECAC finals Saturday proved its potential, and Harvard almost upset the Big Red without the services of four top players--Terry Flaman, George McManama, Chris Gurry, and Joe Cavanagh...
...growing liability in a nation that values youth for its own sake. During Gruening's losing campaigns of 1968, he went to the extreme of taking a swim in the freezing Arctic waters to demonstrate his physical vigor. His age nevertheless appears to have brought on his narrow defeat in the Democratic primary last year...
...means clear what goal that thought would be preferable. For our part we see no acceptable alternative to it, nor are we disposed to seek one. It is popular nowadays to assail academic professionalism for its "sterility," "narowness," or "irrelevance." All would agree that a sterile, narrow, person without a proper sense of relevance is a defective human being, but a far worse one is a soi-disant scholar who does not know his business. We think that the primary concern of the Graduate School must be to create authentic professional scholars who do know their business...
...Dartmouth sweep by a narrow margin over Steve Baumgart in the breast stroke made it close again, but Murphy's thrilling win ended all Indian aspirations...