Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Enveloped in a phlegmatic cloud of imagination, he slowly glided out of Cambridge to a region replete with little green gnomes rollicking gaily. Before him and toward the horizon there loomed a macabre but wavering to the left and then to the right. A low wailing emitted from the narrow brick chimney. The Vagabond rushed thither to peer sureptitiously into a sordid room. A child, not much older than three, indifferently sucked its index finger; a woman, with delicate almost mask-like features brushed her hair, occasionally glancing at the child, then to a corner where an elderly man, sitting...
...rules relating to electrical fixtures in the University, no action has been taken in regard to Shepherd Hall. No changes have been made in the fire-fighting system, and a system of fire doors has not been worked out. The only possible exit from the building outside of the narrow, poorly-lit, stairways, is through the make-shift, self-operated rope fire escape in each room, suspended from a thin iron hook. There is only one rope in every room, whether single or double. In the event that the other dormitories of the University are filled next year...
...Peace," and find the inspiring culmination of a whole new point of view which one of the truly great thinkers of our time has to offer. The present age of disillusion is the inevitable outcome of an orgy of so called "scientific" realism. Professor White head shows how narrow and shortsighted is this interpretation of the nature of things; he demonstrates how only a colossal blindness could load one to tenore the fact that Civilization is essentially a humanly-created achievement of harmony amidst the brute Force of Nature; he tells the amazing story of how abstract ideas become...
...Gothic Vaulting of the Vagabond's narrow cell grew dim in the dusk of the late afternoon. Outside the rain drizzled down, blanket upon blanket, showing the streets below a black ribbon in which closely wrapped figures hastened under the shuddering arcs to the bright shelter of heated chambers. Through the racing, crowding thunderheads above, there still broke a few dull rays of yellow light, which reflected eyrily from Memorial's gray and blood slates into the oaken garret. The Vagabond turned from the casement to the dark and empty chimney corner and lighted the lamp by his deep leathern...
...range of the old-time phonograph was neither wide nor even. With in its narrow effective band, it was stridently partial to certain tones, while notes below middle C were inaudible except for their high overtones, the ear being surprisingly obliging in imagining the absent fundamentals. The newer phonographs and present-day talking pictures have a broad and even response spread, yet there are still inaudible bands at the bass and treble extremes. Wide-Range recording has considerably reduced these inaudible bands. Naturally, improvement is noticeable only in the sounds that lie within these newly retrieved areas of the spectrum...