Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dartmouth, Bowdoin, and Norwich. The first two teams to place will qualify for the finals of the fencing championships which are to be held in New York City on April 17, 18, and 19. As the Crimson fencers have finished seven matches with only two defeats by narrow margins it is expected that they will qualify for the finals...
...Dartmouth, Bowdoin, and Norwich. The first two teams to place will qualify for the finals of the fencing championships which are to be held in New York City on April 17, 18, and 19. It is expected that the Crimson fencers, who have suffered only two defeats by narrow margins in seven matches, will qualify for the finals...
Sculling practice begins today; and a large number of men are expected to report at Newell Boat House, where they will receive instruction from French in the art of handling all kinds of single-oared boats, including wherries, and narrow and broad comps. French acted as Wachter's assistant in this work, two years...
Once Miss Bendelari lived in Joplin, Mo. She went to school in Toronto: studied, worked at costume design in New York. In 1924, vacatoning in France, she learned that French shoes (broad, short) did not fit the feet (long, narrow) of U. S. women. To please them, she borrowed $1,000 from her father, set a solitary shoemaker to work with designs of her own. Among the most expensive in Paris, her shoes were immediately successful: for a while she was manager, packer, messenger, saleswoman; soon she had two factories in France, a small mauve-and-gold shop in Paris...
...Ihlamour, suburb of Constantinople on the Asiatic side of the Bosporus, source of drinking water for generations has been a single deep narrow well in the market place. Housewives and porters gathered there every morning to draw water for their daily needs. There one Yusuf Hanoum, leather worker, sat down to rest last week, while his pet duck, name unknown, hopped up on the well curb :to keep him company. A stray dog frightened him. With an agitated squawk Yusuf's duck fell into Ihlamour's well. Unable to extricate his pet, Leather Worker Hanoum dropped half...