Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This surplus amounted, for the college year 1933-34, to a little over one cent per meal. With such a narrow margin, it is evident that only a slightly increased amount of waste would turn the scale. It is the endeavor to avoid waste which sometimes results in a dish being used up before every one who may order it has been served. This has been known to occur even in the best hotels and clubs...
...classes for peace. Saito's uncompromising demands for parity, Benes' threat of war in the Chamber of the League, Laval's antagonizing oratory, are all evidences of the failure of current diplomats to grasp to broader demands of statesmanship. Indeed, until they do learn to view the narrow policies of egoistic nationalism in the light of world harmony, international conferences are doomed to be sources of national jealousies rather than effective agencies for peace...
...whole of human knowledge is indicated by the phrase "the arts and sciences." Between these two branches of learning a distinct cleavage has grown. Science dominates the modern world--science in the narrow sense. The business-man, unquestionably master of our civilization, is a scientist. Persons, things, actions, even philosophies must justify themselves by the standards of the market-place. "Theorist" and "idealist" have become terms of contempt...
...sufficient breadth, serve as an antidote to intolerance. Most valuable, however, is the work of the few professors who, being scientists, have a background of wide culture or who, as humanists, realize the value of precision. Such men, by their lectures and writings, not only bridge the abyss but narrow it. The University would be fulfilling its duties well by encouraging them at every opportunity...
...under the Roman Empire. Already visible are gracious courtyards, marble fountains and swimming pools, a stone amphitheatre for gladiatorial contests seating 10,000, vivid blue, red, green and orange mosaics, the villa of a Roman governor. In the streets, laid bare by gangs of Yugoslav and Albanian peasants, are narrow ruts where, Dr. Vlada Petovich of the National Museum believes, the chariots of Alexander the Great and Philip of Macedon passed. In the cellar of a synagogue is a curious cistern at the bottom of which the diggers found seven gold pieces?cast there, in Dr. Petovich's opinion...