Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...twelve volumes of them under the name of 0. Henry, are apt to have a faintly dated air. The work of an amazingly prolific popular writer who had few literary pretensions and fewer literary ambitions, their in variable surprise endings have grown less surprising with the years, and the narrow ness of their range and the monotony of their mood have grown more conspicuous...
...grade, Especially true is this of the "Advocate", for the opportunity of writing for a particular publication is excellent training for adapting one's interests to the confines of space and public approval. The range of interests is limited only by the sensitivity of Boston's famed and narrow censor...
...narrow margin of 21 votes Harvard College clung to its traditional Republican moorings according to final figures in the CRIMSON presidential poll conducted yesterday...
With the appearance of the annual Fall list of the University Press comes the realization that this potentially powerful institution has once more lapsed into the narrow confines of pedantry and musty research. Theses on such subjects as "French Revolutionary Legislation on Illcgitimacy, 1789-1804" or "Cutover Old Field Pine Lands in Central New England" swell the stacks hidden in the gloomy recesses of Widener, and furnish excellent material for research along such lines, if any is contemplated. They do not, however, lend either to the University Press, or to the College, that general interest and recognition which one would...
...portrait of an active, wilful, adventurous girl to his gallery. Although it has its share of shadowy eccentrics-including one young fellow who wants to be a horse-it differs from Anderson's previous works in its melodramatic fire & smoke, since it is a tale of moonshiners, murders, narrow escapes and successful crimes...