Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same events are scheduled for both the men and women rowing enthusiasts; including wherries, broad comps, narrow comps, and singles. Although any one contestant can race in only one class, a special feature in the men's single race will allow the winner of the novice race to enter the Senior Singles. Medals will be awarded to the first and second placers in every final heat, and the races will be so organized that adequate rest is provided between the preliminary heats and the finals, although the events will be run off every ten minutes...
...accept any ring, stickpin, or fingerprints," they warned. "You can take such things from a dead man. We must have something in father's handwriting." After five days old Mr. Luer was turned loose on a road near Collinsville. He had been kept, he said, in a dank, narrow concrete crypt in the basement of a house he could not locate. Reported ransom: $10,000. Elsewhere the week's snatching wave lapped and lashed. At San Diego, Calif., onetime President Pascual Ortiz Rubio of Mexico received two telephone calls demanding $50,000 on pain of being kidnapped...
...neurotic Ernest Hemingway had fought the bucking sea bronco alone and without harness. Technically the only true swordfish is the broadbill. The marlin. of which there are some 15 varieties (black, blue, white, barred) identifiable by the size and color of the dorsal and pectoral fins, has a round, narrow, sharp beak, is more properly called a spearfish. Marlins roam the trop ical Atlantic waters, are also found off the coasts of California, Hawaii, Japan, the Antipodes. The largest fish ever caught with rod & reel was a New Zealand black marlin weighing 976 lb., hooked in 1926. The sport...
...since Wartime had short, narrow Downing Street been so jammed with reporters from wall to wall. A message from President Roosevelt was expected and delegates of the World Monetary & Economic Conference had been waiting all day for it. Suddenly the Prime Minister's motor car was sighted and word whipped round that the message had come. Scot MacDonald, alighting hatless in full evening dress, stepped inside and tried to calm the delegates, urged them by inference to go home...
...Yorkers who frequent expensive speakeasies, Dwight Fiske has long been a familiar personality. Lean, hatchet-faced, with hands like carefully manicured claws and a bald-spot on his narrow skull, they have seen him hunched scornfully in front of a grand piano, intoning his unique compositions with an air at once chipper, elegant and insulting. Last winter Dwight Fiske progressed from speakeasies to Manhattan's most elegant café, the Mayfair Yacht Club. Last week two things made it appear that his celebrity- like that of Helen Morgan and Jimmy Durante who preceded him from the orchidaceous gloom...