Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...citizens of Hankow. China's temporary capital, heard the ominous roar of approaching airplanes. Within a few seconds they sighted, coming from the northeast in perfect formation, 50 Japanese bombers and pursuit planes. A few minutes later the authoritative echo of exploding bombs reverberated through Hankow's narrow streets...
...achieve stability in Harvard, there are several items for the Freshman to hold in mind. Boston's domination of the University has been long and penetrating; its old and often narrow attitude tears at an outsider's mode of talk, dress, and thought. This influence should be resisted if it attacks a man's "region of friendly ideas," or the opinions and principles he has formed from past experience and home environment and has held since adolescence. Nevertheless, most Freshmen strange to Boston will be affected by its quaint reserve and quiet individualism. That is but natural...
...American Psychological Association, his intelligence tests are used in many a U. S. school, but though his name is widely known, few people, even on the Chicago campus, have ever seen Professor Thurstone. With his dark-haired wife, Thelma, who collaborates in his research, he works constantly in his narrow office and his laboratory, hopes his three boys will all be scientists...
Wassermann, having bandaged the leg stump, handed the man to observers on the roof of the hotel, inched off the narrow girder, took his patient to City Hospital. There a surgeon re-amputated Marion Carey's left stump above the knee so that he may wear an artificial leg with comfort...
Bitter but sensitive and attractive foliage, Poet Holden's 77 new lyrics are written in a choosy, pressed-flower language that ensures entrance into many poetical anthologies, few human lives. But in spite of Natural History's, painstakingly sterilized language, the book has several narrow escapes-as in The Linden Boughs Are Bare, Proud, Unhoped-for Light-from being contagiously good...