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Word: narrowness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year interest centered particularly in Harvard Hall around the menace from fire and the daily delay in getting out after classes due to congestion in the narrow staircase. Student feeling, as voiced in CRIMSON editorials, learned from Cambridge City Hall that though the building might possibly be a firetrap, ample windows presented safety avenues for an emergency...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIREPROOF PLANS READY FOR SEVER, HARVARD HALLS | 5/12/1937 | See Source »

...Auburn, N. Y., a humane railroad engineer met a dog on a narrow trestle, stopped his locomotive, backed up to let the dog cross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 10, 1937 | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

...Crimson's Varsity and Jayvee crew have records of victories over Princeton, Tech and Rutgers, Columbia comes with a loss to Yale behind it, and a narrow victory over a very poor Pennsylvania crew...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale, Columbia Favored in Hep Meet in Stadium This Afternoon; Eights Also Facing Light Blue | 5/8/1937 | See Source »

...Jayvee race is the last event on the program and features a clash between Harvard. Tech and the Union Boat Club. Bolles' second string eight proved last week that they could take Tech by something around seven lengths; and Union B. C. beat the third Varsity by a narrow margin early in the week. But because the Jayvees are so far superior to the third beat, Union does not seem to stand much of a chance today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Columbia Underdog on River Today in Clash of Coaching Methods | 5/8/1937 | See Source »

...kissed and told something to the effect how tall I'd grown! Then there was much laughing and explaining and finally my friends drove off in their donkey cart leaving me with salami and four taxi drivers wanting to take me 700 feet up the mountain where on a narrow rocky plateau rests Taormina, certainly one of the most charming spots in the world...

Author: By Christophor Jonus, | Title: Tbe Oxford Letter | 5/8/1937 | See Source »

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