Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University of Chicago was a poor second with 41 men, while the University of California, with 31, had a narrow edge over Columbia's 29. Yale ranked fifth with 28, and Princeton was twelfth with 22. When the ranking was adjusted to the size of the colleges, Harvard dropped to ninth place, having 3.28 men honored for each 100 on the staff...
...melodies is a matter for speculation. Certainly the technique of arranging musical instruments before a microphone has increased the illusion of reality almost as much as the widened tonal range of most of the modern receiving sets. With many of the earlier loudspeakers, the only sounds possible to their narrow compass were the modulations of the crooner (an express specialization for the radio) or the stridencies of the more African jazz. But dance music is returning to melody, popular singing to full vocal range, and pari passu the more artistic euphonies are coming into their...
Instead of using this ordinary paraphernalia "Ten-Minute Alibi" returns to the school of pure deduction, which depends for its effect on the cleverness of the criminal in accomplishing his dirty work, and upon the narrow escapes which he has in evading justice. Unfortunately, in "Ten-Minute Alibi" the criminal is not very clever, but this is made up for by the number of close calls which he has; they occur, in fact, about every two minutes during the last two acts, and after the first dozen or so one becomes distinctly indifferent about his fate. As a mystery thriller...
...journalistic bilge. The newshawk with Byrd's Second Antarctic Expedition, Charles John Vincent Murphy, is not extraordinary. But last week aboard the Jacob Ruppert as she crept through the drift ice toward Little America, Reporter Murphy was unexpectedly handed the ideal Byrd expedition story of sudden danger, a narrow escape and a happy ending...
Coach Fesler will use the same lineup which he used as an experiment in the Technology game on Wednesday night in which M. I. T. pulled a surprise and upset the Crimson team by a narrow 32-28 margin. Fesler feels that this lineup did not coordinate properly Wednesday because it did not have enough practice to develop team work, but with the drilling which it went through yesterday and will go through again today, an entirely different result may be expected. However, Fesler is not satisfied with the present lineup as the best possible combination, and will use tomorrow...