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Word: narrowest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Colgate is a stronger aggregation than any Harvard has opposed this year. Hers is a team of veterans who are, at the same time, marvelous specimens physically. The Mountaineers scored two touchdowns early in the first period as the result of long forward passes which were successful by the narrowest possible margin. Forward passes, again, netted the other later touchdowns. All of these passes might easily have failed, leaving the score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KNOX FORESEES CLOSE STRUGGLE | 11/8/1919 | See Source »

...touchstone of classification which by this time the most unobservant has applied. If our Government, the benevolent, and some others had their way, "because of the war" would cover not a multitude of sins, but good deeds. "I have cut my profit to the narrowest margin because of the war" the tradesman would say to the carpenter, who would replay that "I have doubled my efficiency because of the war," or to the manufacturer, who would rejoin that "I take special pains with my products because of the war." Man would be honest over tax schedules "because...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 10/24/1917 | See Source »

...Shall it, then, be war? This is for Germany, and not for us, to say. The President has taken the narrowest possible ground. He takes his stand on the sacrifice of 'American ships and of American lives,' although he had formerly taken the broader ground of humanity. He has given Germany the benefit of every doubt; and has scrupulously avoided any appearance of partisanship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROF. PERRY DESCRIBES U. S. WAR SITUATION | 2/15/1917 | See Source »

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