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...City, the center portion, and by far the most harrowing portion, being left to luck and the last. Aside from the fact that the road is unpaved, that great boulders are apt to crash down from above on the slightest provocation, and that droves of burros usually pick the narrowest part of the road they can find steadfastly to ignore any blasts the wayworn traveller may coax from his fatigued horn, huge, dense clouds settle themselves on the road the better to view the scenery of the valley below. Yes, the Vagabond decided, it is better to close...
...little fault was found with the general purpose of the legislation, most of the debate centered around the powers delegated to the Labor Standards Board. Amendments ranged from giving blanket powers to the board to regulating it by the narrowest of limitations...
...well as any man's. Son of a prosperous Dublin greengrocer, he was schooled at Trinity College, where he was a classmate and familiar of the great Robert Emmet, was involved with him in such seditious pranks that the pair escaped arrest and imprisonment only by the narrowest of margins. It was not until Moore had settled in England, some time after, that he wrote his Irish Melodies, the series of poems which, set to music by Sir John Stevenson and containing such songs as Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms, Oh, Breathe Not His Name...
...migrating hawks. Cool fall winds striking the 1,000 ft. escarpment on the west side of the ridge create strong upward air currents on which the big birds can glide at 50 or 60 mi. an hour without moving their lazy wings. Hawk Mountain is the flyway's narrowest point, where the flights of birds become concentrated. On an especially good day, visitors may see 3,000 assorted hawks fly over...
...Elis escaped an upset by the narrowest of margins, an upset that would have definitely established its like as the usual of the season and not the unusual. The final score of Yale 68 1-2, Harvard 66 1-2 was not in Yale's favor until the final event, the broad jump, in which the Blues gained first and second places to forge pass the Crimson in the scoring for the first and deciding time...