Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week Dr. Millar Burrows of Yale announced that the port had been found by explorations and excavations near Aqaba. The finder is Dr. Nelson Glueck, heading an expedition of the American School for Oriental Research. Aqaba is a town encircled by towering granite hills on a narrow gulf at the Red Sea's northern end. During the War it was captured from the Turks by Arabian forces under the late, strange Colonel T. E. Lawrence...
...Narrow Comps, at 3:45 o'clock: Robert H. Faerland '40; Charles W. O'Conor 1GB; William T. Cushwa '41; and Huges Call...
BELOW THE ROARING FORTIES-F. D. Ommanney-Longmans, Green ($3). Antarctic adventures (1929-1937) of a London zoologist, with smelly descriptions of whaling, acute descriptions of penguins and seals, warm descriptions of the Discovery's, Norwegian crew members, an exciting account of narrow escape from polar ice and marooning...
Roys A. Ellis, Jr. '40 and a passenger; E. G. Howes of Boston, narrowly escaped death when they were forced to land a Stinson monoplane on a short, narrow cinder stretch adjacent to the naval drydock in Sou8th Boston yesterday...
...Once let it [democracy] deviate from the narrow path too far, either to the Left or to the Right, and democracy degenerates," continued Statesman Eden. "A united effort for the spiritual and material rearmament of the nation is the need of the hour...