Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mind as to just where Cervera was. After Commodore Winfield Scott Schley had ventured close enough to sight a Spanish cruiser lying in plain view near the entrance to Santiago harbor, Admiral William T. Sampson determined to bottle up the enemy fleet by sinking a ship across the narrow harbor entrance. Because of his knowledge of ship construction, Lieutenant Richmond Pearson Hobson, nine years out of Annapolis, was chosen for the attempt. With seven volunteers aboard the stripped old collier Merrimac* he steamed up to the harbor in the dark of the moon on June 3. Everything went wrong. Eight...
Declination of the House to undergo another ballot, proposed last Friday after the repealists had won a narrow 120-112 victory, came when Representative John B. Wenzler of South Boston asked for a roll call vote on his action for reconsideration. Only 20 men rose to support him, ten less than the required number...
First, Henry's reforms were among the most important and beneficial in England's history. Second, Becket's opposition was based on a narrow class privilege, wholly at odds with progress and the general welfare. Third, there was considerable support of precedent for both sides in the conflict. The superior legality of one or the other was a matter of such tenuous interpretation that it might easily have merited a five-to-four decision in a modern Supreme Court. Impetuously, the twelfth century politicians sought to solve the conflict of reform and the existence of a strategically-placed individual...
...what most observers believe to be the most significant act of legislation this year, virtual repeal of the Teachers' Oath Bill was enacted yesterday when, by the narrow vote of 111-102, the Massachusetts House of Representatives accepted the report of the Committee on Education which recommended that the raw be erased from the ledgers...
...controls were jammed. Cutting his motors for an immediate investigation, he discovered that his radio microphone had fallen off its hook by the seat into the V-shaped well in the wall between the movable control column and the fixed structural parts of the cockpit. Grim-faced at his narrow escape from tragedy, the pilot told his employers about it. They at once passed the word to other lines using DC-3's. United Air Lines, whose February crash into San Francisco Bay was still a mystery, quickly took another look at the wreckage in which seasoned Pilot Alexander...