Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commander reached for a row of pullcords overhead, yanked at them to release water ballast. Slowly, painfully, the shuddering Akron shouldered her way aloft again. An "all hands on" brought the off-watch from their bunks. Officers, bos'ns' mates, riggers, firemen groped their way along narrow catwalks to their stations...
...chance she went to France as a nurse. Meanwhile Hans Haaska, Missouri doctor's son, was finding his painful way through priggishness to virtue. In England he was doing well in biology when his sister's death called him home. There he married an older woman, narrow, Fundamentalist, and together they went to Africa to physic the heathen. But his marriage went to smash on the Rock of Ages. When he met a second-rate singer who flattered him, though a child could have told him not to take a chance, he did, with disastrous results. Disillusioned, middle...
Walking in Washington's Rock Creek Park while his wife waited in their car, hale George Brinton McClellan, 67, three-career man (New York City's one-time Mayor and Congressman, Princeton professor, author), namesake son of the famed Civil War General, tried to cross the narrow creek bed. slipped on the concrete bottom, breaking his leg. For half an hour before his wife heard him he lay half under water, unable to rise, calling for help...
...most significant tests for the Grand National, the Open Hunters' Steeplechase at Sandown, month ago. Last fortnight they finished second in the National Hunt Steeplechase at Cheltenham (TIME, March 20). But Jock Whitney's excitement as he watches the field, cluttered at the start, narrow off toward Melling Road, will be evidence also of his faith in something even less tangible than Dusty Foot's chances in this year's Grand National. The owner of favored Golden Miller is his cousin. Like her, he will be upholding the tradition of a family which, for three generations...
...TRAGEDY OF Z-Barnaby Ross- Viking ($2). Thumm's girl and Drury Lane follow a grafter's death to prison walls; false justice averted by a narrow margin...