Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sometimes it is a little hard to slip back into the traces that guide one in the straight and narrow path. It took inducements of no mean nature to draw the Vagabond down from the hills where long winter evenings and well-thumbed books hold their spell. But a glance every now and then at the lectures scheduled for the coming few weeks will make perfectly clear just why the old rover has returned...
...compare the Lincoln and Davis faces, one will only have to stand in the narrow connecting passage between Statuary Hall and the Rotunda where is placed the Lincoln head, rising as if half-finished out of solid stone, carved by Gutzon Borglum (donated by Eugene Meyer Jr., onetime Farm Loan Commissioner). To the sorrow of romantic historians the two antagonists of the Civil War will not gaze mournfully upon each other...
...long, narrow control room of Columbia Broadcasting Co., high above Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, are switches, plugs, tubes, grills, meters, other complicated instruments of broadcasting science. At 6 a. m. one cold, black morning last week, there stood brawny Harold Vivian, chief control room operator. He had been on duty all night making tests. Now he was watching the chief engineer and assistants inspect apparatus, establish contact with outlying stations. A hushed, nervous expectancy filled the room. In a half-minute they would begin broadcasting to 59 stations in the U. S. and Canada, a prime program...
...reporter. This is, he said, the first attempt ever made to trace the subsequent careers of criminals after their incarceration. The statement had been made and generally accepted that when criminals had served their terms and were let loose, approximately 80 per cent of them went the straight and narrow path thenceforth. But Glueck went into the matter in detail. He looked into every corner of the lives of 500 criminals at four stages in their careers, compiling statistics at every turn. Ninety per cent of these men were kept in touch with while located in every part...
...summer, swift motorboats cleave both Manhattan's broad grey Hudson River and narrow, oily East River. But unusual is the sight that Manhattanites had last week-a tarpaulin-covered motorboat left all night on a truck at a Park Avenue corner. Many another night and all day many another glistening, rivet-new motorboat was being carted through the streets. Gapers who followed these land-hauled boats found they were bound for Grand Central Palace, there to bask in blue and silver brilliance for the 25th (Silver Anniversary) New York Motorboat Show...