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Word: narrowness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Specific cause of last week's narrow squeak: Religion. The amendment carried provides in effect that the bill shall not come into operation until the Treasury grants certain subsidies to Roman Catholic schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Rim of Doom | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

...yacht for many days). Like the New Colonial's "Lighthouse" is the Fort Montagu's "Jungle," a place removed from sleepy guests where the gay and wakeful may dance and drink long after midnight. Smartest part of Nassau (except for Government House) is Hog Island, the long narrow sandspit that turns its elegant back on the harbor, the odorous sponge and market docks. On Hog Island is the Porcupine Club, for swanky and exclusive food, drink and bathing. Nearby is also the home of Nassau's greatest dowager, Lady Williams Taylor. Beyond her estate is the public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Winter Islands | 1/26/1931 | See Source »

...Freshmen's greater reserve power proved too much for Wilbraham, and Ware's goal was followed closely by that of R. P. Waters, Jr. '34. Then with the score tied 2 to 2, and seven seconds left to play. Ware again scored, winning the game by a narrow margin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOAL BY J. WARE IN LAST PERIOD WINS FOR 1934 | 1/22/1931 | See Source »

...CRIMSON and the Princetonian agree that the football breach should not be allowed to interfere with the schedule of matches in other sports. The CRIMSON expresses it thus: "When there is no possibility of mending the football breach for a number of years at least. It is a narrow principle that will not admit a full program of sports to be more important that a game of football. The Princetonian states editorially: "...there appears no compelling reason, from the undergraduate viewpoint, for continuing a wholesale sacrifice of all sports to a dispute that began over one." There is sound good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Yale Fence | 1/19/1931 | See Source »

Last Monday evening the St. Paul's Catholic Club quintet inaugurated the intramural basketball season by defeating the Tau Epsilon Phi team with a score of 18 to 8. Kappa Sigma overcame the Lambda Chi Alpha five by the narrow margin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Inter-Fraternity Basketball | 1/14/1931 | See Source »

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