Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sloping up from the narrow Atlantic coastal plain, the Eastern U.S. rears abruptly in the great earth-wrinkles of the Appalachian Highlands, stretching northeast to southwest from New England to Alabama. When early U. S. settlers pushed out from the coast into this rugged region, they built their towns, for purposes of commerce, on the narrow-valleyed rivers which flow east from the Appalachian slopes into the Atlantic, west into the Gulf of Mexico or Great Lakes. Power from these rivers helped make the northern Highlands the great manufacturing region of the U. S., where dwell 28% of the nation...
...vote to substitute some other name for the word "strike" failed by a narrow margin...
...vote to substitute some other name for the word "strike" failed by a narrow margin...
...from the London Sunday Graphic for Sept. 15 and the Aug. 5 and 7 issues of Labor's Daily Herald. Finally Ratanji went somewhat surgically berserk, butchering and slashing the chunks of flesh that had been wife & nurse and at last contriving to dump the lot into a narrow Scottish ravine appropriately known to local rustics as "The Devil's Beef...
...disfranchised, every Russian acts in this triple role. Over & above this, if he wants to follow "the vocation of public leadership," and can stand the gaff, he may be a member of the Communist Party. Members are hardly admitted, easily expelled, must "walk a straight & narrow way. With a naughty old wink at the Kremlin and another at the Vatican, the Webbs liken the personnel of the Communist Party to the Society of Jesus, its supremacy in the U.S.S.R. to that of the Pope in his temporal glory. They quote Stalin: "We may say that the dictatorship of the proletariat...