Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There was no talk of birth or rank By the slung hammock or scrubbed plank In the steel-grated prisons where I cast him; For But rest - niggard and hours the and a naked light narrow on his space face - While the ship's traffic flowed, unceasing, past him. IV "Thus I speak at the schooled him word to - at go a and sign be come - dumb; To stand to his task, not seeking others to aid him; To share in honour what praise might fall For the task accomplished and - over all - To swallow rebuke in silence. Thus...
Against Josephine Souchek, 17-year-old daughter of a Chicago truck farmer, Miss Didrikson had a narrow escape in the quarterfinals, managed to win on the 19th hole. Next day, while Helen Hicks was losing to Mrs. Opal Hill of Kansas City, who later won the tournament, Babe Didrikson was beaten by able Elaine Rosenthal Reinhardt of Winnetka, Ill., runner-up at 15 for the National Amateur Championship of 1914. Experts agreed that Babe Didrikson can already outdrive any other woman golfer, that she would need another year of practice before her short game and putting are as good...
...been diverted to the paths of social satire by "some mysterious trick of destiny." Whether or not Author Lewis wrote his introduction with his tongue in his cheek, the stories that followed it, with but one shining exception, proved to be long-winded and mechanical, written according to the narrow formula of popular magazine fiction. Examples: ¶ A small boy petted a kitten, thereby causing a barber to give an executive a silly haircut, the executive to lose a job, a business to fail, a revolution to break...
Congratulated on his narrow escape, Pilot Gehlbach shrugged, joined Navy officials reviewing a motion picture of his flight. The Navy decided to do its future testing of difficult, dangerous X-737 in the new spinning-tunnel at the NACA laboratory, Langley Field...
...narrow comps, Andrew G. Webster, II '37 and Andrew T. Nelson '37 finished first and second, in 3 minutes, 36 seconds. Henry W. Locke '38 and Selden T. Rodgers '36 finished in that order in the broad race, Locke's time being 3 minutes, 36 seconds. Tying for first in the wherry race were Hallock C. Campbell 3G and Harry R. Ames '38, who covered the course in 4 minutes, six seconds...