Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Through narrow streets of Riga one day last fortnight rushed excited Latvians to see what was going on at the old Cathedral of St. Mary. There a man half stood, half dangled, his left hand spiked to the Cathedral's heavy oak door. Brandishing a hammer in his free hand, the man was shouting: "I want to save the world from a new world war by this crucifixion!" Police pried the nail out with the hammer, took the man to a hospital...
Water was run into the hole through a wide hose, and formed a solution with loose soil at the bottom. The resultant mixture was forced to the top through a very narrow pipe, and was collected in a trough...
...could the liquidation be accomplished without impairing the Royal Family's immense goodwill dating from Queen Victoria? Could humdrum Mr. Baldwin keep steady and do his awful duty while narrow Downing Street echoed to such cries as "God save the King-from Bald- win! FLOG BALDWIN! FLOG HIM!! WE-WANT-EDWARD!!!" The last man in the world whom such cries could disconcert is Mr. Baldwin, and the last woman is Mrs. Baldwin...
Promptly quashed by Federal engineers was the dream of many a delegate that short-wave reception might offer a solution to their hunger for additional radio time. The short-wave bands open to present day receivers are relatively narrow, and largely assigned to commercial operators. President William Mather Lewis of Lafayette College described the only U. S. short-wave station that is non-commercial and non-profit-making, Boston's WIXAL. Founded by Engineer Walter S. Lemmon, who shyly refused last week to make a speech, WIXAL since 1934 has broadcast lectures and lessons by Harvard, Radcliffe and Boston...
...match with the Harvard Graduates, the varsity class "A" squash team was victorious by the narrow margin of 3-2 today. The most important of the contests was the one between John C. Develin '38 and Dean Chauncey. Develin finally won out, taking three games out of four. Other Harvard winners were Captain Richard D. Dorson and Alvah W. Sulloway, who defeated Lyman Olmstead and Sebert 1d. Davenport '34 respectively...