Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Trailing Army and Navy, the fencing team nevertheless came out ahead of Yale and Princeton in the Annual Pentagonal Meet at Annapolis March 4. The Varsity's only defeat this year was at the hands of Seton Hall by the narrow margin...
...François-Poncet's car approached, the doors were swung open by electricity and the Ambassador drove into a 350 footlong, marble-walled underground chamber, brilliantly lighted by bronze lamps. From this chamber the Ambassador was directed through a short, narrow tunnel into a huge, copper-lined elevator outfitted with ten comfortable leather seats. The elevator ascended a shaft bored through the heart of the mountain for 400 feet. At the top M. François-Poncet emerged to behold the new eyrie of Germany's strange, solitary master...
Most exciting event of the afternoon was the breast-stroke in which Roger Willcox prevailed by the narrow margin of one foot. Bill Cann scored a win in the dive with Pete Waring just failing to take a second...
...advancement and tenure provides a huge hole through which abuses may pour in. There is a possibility that the conscious or unconscious prejudices of the older members will determine their decisions, or that points of view not in agreement with theirs will be excluded so that the department becomes narrow and biased. The current Feild controversy is a case in point. There is also a danger that the older men will hunt for academic lions to make the top of the department more imposing, while ignoring the greater needs down below. There is the further possibility that the central governing...
...wonder if you realized the widespread implications of your editorial of February 27 concerning the latent dangers to our cultural growth resulting from the increased use of that "newfangled" idea: the electric razor. Your stand represents the eternal stand of the narrow-minded reactionary...