Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fourteen officers of the Senior Class were elected last night, as returns of the week's elections were tabulated. Robert C. Holcombe, of Cambridge, gained the office of Class Secretary by the narrow margin of 13 votes...
Because among the competitors stand out Princeton and Yale, both of whom have succeeded in tying up the Crimson team, chances for title wins on the basis of the season's record appear slight. Yet, so narrow were their margins, that the rejuvinated eight, led by Captain Cavin, hopes to make a brilliant comeback on the Lehigh...
...society in order that those things which we cherish might be safeguarded against the forces over which we have no control. It is, then, in the picture of our everyday life. "Most people, because of the limitations of economic hazards, could not step out from their narrow sphere of life, so pressing were the obligations of the home. If we insure a man of a more reasonable tenure of office, then we shall get an increase in pride of public service...
...thus committed itself and its hearers to a certain set of preconceived ideas, to a "cause" which, however, emotionally satisfying, is hardly enlightening. Unless the Union recaptures its spirit of impartiality it will stray from the road of greatest usefulness and popularity and inevitably lose itself in the narrow, trackless paths of partisanship...
There is no denying the fact of specialization and its progressive intensity. But there is likewise no denying its miring effect on the intellect and the crusty narrow insolence of the specialist who may know his field but little else. The theme is all-pervading, whether the man be a worker turning one bolt on a factory belt or a student of history endlessly annotating the private life of Napoleon...