Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...though not so dramatically Tory as Ethel du Font's) but many a Bostonian declined an invitation to the wedding reception. Startled Mother Clark, after planning for 400 guests, received White House requests for 550 invitations, most of which were accepted. The Secret Service cautiously wired off the narrow causeway leading out to the village from the mainland, made guests walk to the church. Cars there were for the bride & groom's families, including the entire clan Roosevelt, even Sistie and Buzzie Dall (now 11 and 7, called Eleanor and Curtis), with their mother, Mrs. John Boettiger...
...that the future of Germany, according to the dramatic Führer, lies in Eastern Europe-in the fertile, wheat-producing Russian Ukraine. And Benes knows that one German road to the Ukraine leads over his fence, up the Elbe, through Prague, across the rest of Czechoslovakia and a narrow 125-mile strip of Rumania. Benes is fully aware of Czechoslovakia's road-blocking position. Not impervious to drama himself, he told New York Timeswoman Anne O'Hare McCormick four months ago: "The destiny of Europe will be decided here. This country is a natural and necessary point...
...sometimes to ease their conscience. The desire for security--which involves comfort, leisure, marriage--is intelligent, but the ambition to make money for the sake of money should have been buried with the primitive Forty Niners. The tradition of money-making has delayed intellectual progress; it has tended to narrow the American mind and stifle the enthusiasm for social improvement. It is a serious handicap to the graduate in the process of adjusting himself to society...
...size of Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall) was blasted. Bombs fell in the grounds of the U. S.-owned Lingnan University, the oldest Christian college in South China, and ripped out a side of the French Paul Doumer Hospital, just across the narrow canal from the island of Shameen, Canton's foreign concession. Bombers power-dived over the settlement, built on a reclaimed sandbar, and released their loads directly above in order to plump them into the populous Chinese West Bund. Settlement police stood guard to beat back any Chinese who might plunge across the narrow canal...
...Clipper. Down the ways at the Boeing plant in Seattle fortnight ago the largest U. S. seaplane ever built slipped gently into the narrow Duwamish Waterway. The launching of the 41-ton, 4-motored Boeing 314 Clipper, destined one day to fly the oceans for Pan American Airways, relieved congestion at Boeing's, where there are under construction five more Clippers and the first Stratoliner, built like the Army's Flying Fortress, but equipped with a pressurized cabin.* Down the Duwamish tenders carefully nudged the great flying boat, nursed her sidewise through bridge spans narrower than...