Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Here TIME'S three chief writers shared a long narrow cell barely big enough for three desks end to end. The editor sat at a desk in a large room surrounded by smaller desks for typists and half-a-dozen college girls (at one time from Smith, at others from Mt. Holyoke, Vassar, Wellesley)-the beginnings of a research staff...
After losing by a narrow margin to Hartford last Saturday, the Crimson squad is out to regain the brand of fencing that enabled them to beat Brown decisively in the first match of the season, two weeks...
Late last week, exactly five days after Secretary of State Cordell Hull had categorically denied that there was any written or implied agreement of any sort between the British and U. S. fleets (TIME, Feb. 14), three modern U. S. cruisers, Trenton, Milwaukee and Memphis, steamed into narrow Singapore Strait and dropped anchor to the boom of welcoming salutes from British shore batteries...
Crossroads of Empire. All shipping from the Mediterranean and India to the Far East, all shipping from Britain to Australia must pass through the narrow Strait of Malacca, which was controlled by the Portuguese, the Dutch, and finally by the British after 1824. But the island of Singapore (in Malayan "Lion City''), a feverish mush of mangrove roots and black mud 27 miles long by 14 broad, was practically uninhabited until far-sighted Sir Stamford Raffles set up a trading settlement on the island in 1819. had the whole island ceded to the East India Co. five years...
Died. Dexter Parshall Cooper, 57, hydraulic engineer who in 1919 conceived a plan for harnessing the tide which piles from the Bay of Fundy into narrow St. John's River so fast that a waterfall pours up-stream-a plan later half realized in the unfinished $36,000,000 Passamaquoddy power project; of a heart attack; in Boston. With his brother, the late Hugh Lincoln Cooper, he helped plan the Keokuk, Iowa dam across the Mississippi, Wilson Dam, Muscle Shoals power project...