Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went into the interior of the Indian Country and visited the little Hopi villages built on top of narrow mesas, accessible only by foot...
Although the Westerners cannot boast of a clean record like Harvard's, their one loss to Rice College was by a narrow margin, and last weekend gave them a victory over Oklahoma. Most of the Texans are veterans of a team which last year showed much brilliant passing ability. While forward passing has played only a small part in their games so far, it is suspected that they are saving some surprises in that line for Saturday's contest, an objective at which they have been aiming for more than a year...
...Coolidge] appears, there, as a man who has thought out and arrived at a clear, a well ordered, rather narrow, if you like, but entirely consistent set of convictions about the functions of the President. ... It turns out that what his [President Hoover's] critics complain about is that Mr. Hoover is indecisive and hesitant about dealing with political issues and extraordinarily fertile, impulsive and energetic in trying to influence matters that lie outside the duties of his realms and his powers...
...Janney is a little too pretty and a shade too self-conscious for Penrod but his laugh, so incongruous with his speech that it sounds like a ventriloquist's giggle, is the most infectious sound in the picture. Sam (Junior Coghlan) has a flat Irish face, eyes that narrow pleasantly in anger; the short right with which he starts his fight with Penrod is better timed than Carnera's (see p. 22). Good shots: nice little Georgie Bassett doing a minuet at the birthday party while Penrod and Sam are fighting upstairs; the In-or-In Club preparing...
...colleges and with some individuals in any college such a criticism is justified. On the other hand there are individuals in any college who place all emphasis on studies, failing to see the value of social education. This type of student is perhaps equally deserving of criticism for his narrow viewpoint...