Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other and more probable alternative is, of course, that the President will change his mind about balancing the budget, lose the east to a revived Republican party, and win the election by a narrow margin of western states...
...Following Nazi Theodor Habicht's "radio ultimatum'' giving Austria eight days to accept a Nazi Government, the Heimwehr men were being sent to the border where 10,000 men of the famed Austrian Legion were supposed to be ready to invade the country through the narrow valley at Braunau-Adolf Hitler's birthplace. U. S. correspondents investigated privately, could find no signs of unusual activity on either side of the border. From Berlin they learned that Handsome Adolf himself had suppressed news of the Habicht ultimatum in Germany and was thinking of pensioning or retiring...
...loyalty of the Vienna police. Carrying this and also the task of reorganizing the monetary system of a dismembered country to a successful conclusion, Schumpeter presented early in 1919 a budget designed to prevent the paper currency inflation which subsequently followed; but the legislature rejected it by a narrow vote, and Schumpeter resigned, thereafter steadily losing interest in politics, until, in 1925, he accepted a professorship at the University of Bonn...
...loyalty of the Vienna police. Carrying this and also the task of reorganizing the monetary system of a dismembered country to a successful conclusion, Schumpeter presented early in 1919 a budget designed to prevent the paper currency inflation which subsequently followed; but the legislature rejected it by a narrow vote, and Schumpeter resigned, thereafter steadily losing interest in politics, until, in 1925, he accepted a professorship at the University of Bonn...
...record in the backstroke. Harry Fitts, apparently in the best form he has shown all season, scored the biggest surprise by defeating Lyman, the Brown veteran diver, for the first time in the Harvard pool. George Scott, despite a slow start in the fifty, managed to close up a narrow lead, and finally edge ahead of Lewis, with Roy Wallace a close third...