Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cambridge side of the river is the Weld Boat House which is used by scullers who have at their disposal over 70 singles, narrow and broad comps, and wherries. The House crews also embark from Weld but the Varsity and Freshman crews use the Newell boat house which is on the Soldiers Field side of the river and contains the majority of the 36 eights used by the Crimson oarsmen...
After a short wait, a guard ushered the newsmen into the long, narrow partners' room with its line of flat-topped desks. The desks were deserted but at the far end beneath a looming portrait of John Pierpont Morgan Sr. stood the firm's traditional spokesman, Partner Thomas Lamont, flanked by Partners George Whitney and Harold Stanley. The newsmen crowded in about the fireplace while Mr. Lamont announced the resignation of three Morgan partners, two partners of Drexel & Co., the Philadelphia affiliate...
Thereafter, day after day for months and years, long queues of worshipful believers in Communism and curious infidels moved slowly through the doorway, flanked by two immobile guards, down a narrow passage to an underground room, through heavy air that muffled footfalls, discouraged talk. In that uneasy silence the body, clad in the uniform of a Red Commander with a shroud over the legs, lay on a block of black granite, beneath a tent-shaped enclosure of glass. The bald, Slavic head with scrubby, rufous beard and mustache rested on a silk pillow. From the ridge of the glass enclosure...
...Public Utility Bill, which got through last week on a House-White House compromise of the "death sentence" for holding companies. The Securities & Exchange Commission must order holding companies to divest themselves of utilities outside "a single integrated" system (with certain narrow exceptions), must prevent any holding company from controlling a second holding company which controls a third holding company...
...Cambridge side of the river is the Weld Boat House which is used by scullers who have at their disposal over 70 singles, narrow and broad comps, and wherries. The House crews also embark from Weld but the Varsity and Freshman crews use the Newell boat house which is on the Soldiers Field side of the river and contains the majority of the 36 eights used by the Crimson oarsmen...