Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...along its coast by prosperous townships-Villa Hayes (so named in honor of U. S. President Charles Rutherford Hayes), Puerto Pinasco (American company), Puerto Casado, Puerto Sastre, etc. Extensive cattle ranges with Hereford and Shorthorn strains go for hundreds of kilometres into the interior which in many parts has narrow gauge rails for transportation. Swamps and bogs are to be found in every part of the world that are underpopulated, or, as still of course is the case in the Chaco, devoid of population. But it is not difficult to settle, as has been proved by the recent colonies...
...pleasant gentleman who could give them cigars without mak-ing them feel under obligation to him. His partners' testimony he followed as closely as if he were hearing things about his own business for the first time. From Senatorial wisecracks he often got large belly laughs, with his narrow blue eyes wrinkling up out of sight under bushy grey brows. With newsmen he gossiped good-naturedly, told them about his bloodstone watch charm, joked about his own importance but firmly refused to break his life-long rule against interviews...
Students living in large cities will be forced to narrow the scope of their study to selected topics, but the intention is that the report should include a description of the area covered, its location, climate, population, racial composition, and social stratification. The student will discuss the relative importance of its various economic activities, the transportation facilities, and such other factors as will provide an adequate picture of the community in its current setting and its relation to the rest of the country...
...Harvard: Captain J. A. Booth '33, 117; F. H. Poor '34, 109; David Weld '34, 108; Fisher Howe, III '35, 106; Eugene DuBois '33, 106. For Boston: Jansen, 108; Jones, 105; C. Hagen, 105; Mc-Laughlin, 103; Shine, 102. Early in the season B. C. defeated Harvard by a narrow margin...
Broker's Tip's jockey was Don Meade of California. With spur and whip, he got his horse up to Charley 0 and passed him, went for a narrow opening between Head Play and the rail. For a few moments in the last furlong of the mile and a quarter distance the crowd saw the two of them locked together at close quarters, their jockeys' boots rubbing. As they reached the finish still jammed together at the rail, in the immense uproar of a crowd that wanted the Bradley horse to win, Broker...