Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moment it was British and it was brave to get ready to believe that the new Lifeline of Empire is better, stronger and more glorious than the old. It runs clear around Africa, past the ominous Cape, whose storms were once so deadly to sailing ships. It is no narrow, canalized affair of jealous Europe's pesky little Mediterranean or rebellious Egypt's Suez, but a broad route over the bounding main...
Last November his party won the elections by the unprecedently narrow margin of a majority of six in the Quebec Legislature. Allied with the Conservative opposition was the new reform Liberal party, Action Liberale Nationale, of Paul Gouin, son of Taschereau's predecessor as Premier. Since then Conservative Maurice Duplessis, Opposition leader, has pried into the Liberal's solidified habits of graft, got the Legislature to start a Public Accounts Committee investigation. The committee was heavily packed with old-guard Liberals but Representative Duplessis was far too smart for them. At last week's committee meeting...
Jimmy had many a brush with the police after that, and some narrow escapes, but they never got him. Meantime he had fallen in love (seriously, this time) with an Indian lass, and she with him. Her stern parent, in view of Jimmy's uncertain social position, frowned on the match, and a blackguard named Montenegro, an even harder case than Jimmy, married the girl. It was a blow to Jimmy but he went his way, dodging the police, smacking other hard cases when they asked for it, gradually adding to his flocks until he was regarded...
...always been that the Washington government was trying to perform duties that really belonged to the states. Even Mr. Hoover did not dare come out against minimum-wage and maximum hour laws, but merely said that the Constitution reserved such powers to the states. Mr. Hoover may have been narrow-minded and behind the times, but he was not inhuman, and to many people his argument had a great deal of logic. In the face of this decision such a clear-cut alternative is definitely out of the question. What was forbidden Congress so recently in the Guffey case...
...past Jung has contributed greatly to psychology by broadening and deepening the otherwise narrow outlook of psycho-analysis. It is regrettable, however, to discover that a man of such keen psychological insight is willing to dull his scientific sensibilities through indirect association with the Nazi race theories. Jung may properly be honored for his contributions in the past if one is willing to overlook the unscientific trend of his pronouncements in the present." Gordon W. Allport