Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mapping and surveying instruments: the vast forests and swamps of northeastern Siberia, the fastnesses of northeastern Tibet, the bandit-infested northern reaches of the Gobi Desert, the sandy centre of Australia, the eastern slopes of the unmapped Andes, the vast Patagonian icecap stretching over South America's narrow end. the snow-swept islands stretching vaguely north from Canada's "barren lands," and the American Southwest's trackless deserts...
...small for three churches, would never have had the third if it had not been for old John Durken. In trying to convert the only educated man in Midland, a blind man, an intelligent agnostic. Bruce's simple faith was shaken; but he would not admit it, went his narrow way more feverishly than ever. When he had succeeded in taking the joy out of Ab Carver's happy and occasionally lecherous life, Bruce cheered up. staked everything on Ab's imminent conversion. Then one morning Ab's body was found hanging in the barn: Bruce had driven his simple...
...inter-class swimming meet went to the Seniors by the narrow margin of one point yesterday afternoon in the New Indoor Athletic Building. The score of the three Classes competing was: Seniors 34, Juniors 33, and Sophomores 17. This means that the Seniors will meet the winning Yale class on Saturday, March...
Most men's decisions about their careers are leaps in the dark. The danger of leaping too soon is that a person of narrow experience is apt to remain blind to the qualities lacking in his particular existence. Routine jobs mould youth too fast. If college gives undergraduates the opportunity to travel some distance along several roads, if it keeps a man "unformed" until he can share with some intelligence the choice of his form, it is not the worst place to send this same "callow youth...
Capt. Campbell, quiet, reticent, with regular teeth and a narrow, Mephistophelian face, has spent $100,000 on alterations in Bluebird. It has the same long chassis he drove at Daytona three years ago (TIME, Feb. 27, 1928) but its new 12-cylinder Napier aeroplane engine has been equipped with superchargers that up its horsepower from 920 to 1,450. The Golden Arrow had only 900 h. p. Blue bird's chassis clears the ground by five inches and the wind resistance has been reduced by changes in streamlining. Fins like a plane's elevators will hold down...