Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...annual show of the Pekingese Club of America the little dogs which peered out from wicker or glass cases strikingly resembled their fabled ancestors. There were the tawny coats, the pendulous ears, the wide chest and narrow hips of the lion. No imagination strain was needed to detect a simian likeness in their bright, popping eyes and bashed-in noses...
...with false walls designed by his wife, an able amateur sculptress (TIME, Feb. 29). On ordinary occasions all that is visible are a few choice prints carefully framed. For favored friends each panel will swing back to show its reverse completely covered with Mr. Wiggin's favorites in narrow moldings, to expose shelves stacked high with hundreds of others...
...barrage the Imperial troops entered Shanhaikwan's dragon-crested South Gate. Firing from cover Chinese riflemen drove them back once, twice. Next artillery battered breaches in the walls, Japanese troops burst through, fought bayonet-to-bayonet with desperate Chinese among the low mud huts of Shanhaikwan's narrow, winding streets. Hurtling from the sky Japanese bombs set the city afire, rained death among soldiers and civilians alike. Japanese gunners, when they finally got the range, concentrated on Shanhaikwan's famed Drum Tower which has sounded, warnings for centuries, sent it crashing down in smoke...
...continued, "constant changes in the very nature of academic learning may account for this loss of contact. We are in an age of specialization. Nowadays, speaking generally, the most advanced students are interested in rather narrow limited fields. Great scholars such as Copeland, Kittredge, and Lowes, who have studied in many fields of learning are the exception, and surprise the world. However, I feel that there are as many geniuses in scholastic pursuits as there have ever been; it is only that they are of a slightly different order...
...automobile belonging to Dickie Moore can be identified as a death car the instant it appears on the floor of Metropolitan Garage. This and other paraphernalia in The Devil Is Driving-an airshaft into which a sedan topples, a narrow two-way ramp full of blind corners-make it a peculiarly stagey exposé. The garage is an interesting and elaborate caution to curious motorists. In addition to its ramps and airshafts, it contains a mechanic stupider than most real ones (Guinn Williams), a speakeasy with onyx bar, a suite of offices in which a racketeer (Alan Dinehart) operates with...