Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Item. The remarkably narrow time limit within which the kidnapping probably took place: 8:30 when Nurse Gow says she last saw the child and 9:15 when Col. Lindbergh sat down under the nursery window...
...could depend. He married an amiable, unpractical creature, pregnant or convalescent from childbirth for six years out of their union of nine. He went deeper & deeper in debt. Figaro earned him $200, Don Giovanni about $225. A grey-clad stranger knocked at his door one day, asked him to narrow his price for writing a Requiem March. The stranger turned out to be steward to a count who wanted to be known as a composer but Mozart, worn out at 35, took him to be Death. He died before he could finish the Requiem, had a five-dollar funeral...
Although they held the Yale fencers even until the final match, the Freshman swordsmen went down to defeat by the narrow margin of 9 to 8 on Saturday in the Indoor Athletic Building in the last meet of the Year...
...Pierce has also been at work on magnetostriction rods, usually an alloy of nickel and steel, used, experimentally, as a source of air waves, similar to sound waves, but above audible limit, especially in the range: 30,000 to 50,000 cycles. Such waves can be focused, confined to narrow beams like those from a searchlight. Both the quartz crystal and magnetostriction rod are being worked on for communication purposes, and are also used to study the elastic properties of materials...
...addition to the relay, Wood swam the 220 and the 440, maintaining a narrow lead over Strong of Penn in the latter event to win by a two-foot margin in 5 minutes, 16 seconds. Wood won the intercollegiate 440-yard championship last spring with a time of 5 min., 4 sec. and if he swims in this event against Yale is likely to take first place. Yale made a clean sweep of the first a year...