Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sabotage or to sincere, though groundless, fear of consequences, it is impossible to say. If this policy results in the loss of the Securities Act in order to attain recovery, then there will be one more important monument to the blundering incompetence of the bankers, whose vision is as narrow as their power is great...
Steffens spoke of Lenin, with whom he has talked at length. "All of Lenin's confederates are narrow minded and decent communists; and so is Lenin himself, for all practical purposes. That is the only way be can find out how communism works. Yet underneath it all, Lenin's is perhaps the most liberal mind I have ever encountered...
...keeping with the prevailing style of architecture at Yale, all the Colleges are Gothic with the exception of Pierson and Davenport, which are American Georgian like the Harvard House. The rich and heavy Gothic makes the Colleges seem more cloistered, while the narrow windows make most of the rooms rather dark. The Colleges are uniformly smaller than the Houses, accommodating from 175 to 200 residents apiece...
More surprising than Utah's wetness was the fact that North Carolina, by a vote of 2-to-1, and South Carolina by a narrow majority, shrank into the Dry column...
...write, viz.: "Squadron A in their smart uniforms formed in the narrow street to escort the Vice-President-elect to the Capitol. We decided that their mounts had been hired in Washington for the occasion, probably taken from coal wagons, as they showed a tendency to back onto the sidewalk...