Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make this price reduction La Salle Motorman Fisher discarded the traditional Cadillac V-type motor for a straight eight, which permitted him to narrow the radiator and taper the whole body in long, fast lines. Heavily streamlined and equipped with "knee-action" wheels, La Salle, as a newcomer in the medium-priced field, was one of the trumps of the Show...
...Bulldog has been but little successful in its games so far this season, falling before the hoopsters of Providence College by a narrow 35-32 margin, and losing to Fordham, 35-29. The Elis will miss the leadership of their captain, Bob O'Connell, who is the main cog in the Blue machine, but the remainder of the team is of sufficiently high calibre to be favored in tonight's contest...
...success of permanent reforms such as the Securities Act, the abolition of child labor, the industrial hour and wage codes, or collective bargaining. Each of these represents a definite social advance which the Supreme Court has not admitted in the past and which can not be admitted on the narrow emergency basis which the Chief Justice posits. It may be that Mr. Hughes and the Court have become "liberal," and that the NRA will pass substantially untouched under their eyes, but this decision, and the grounds on which it was made, do not give much basis for the belief. POLLUX...
...private dinner in Havana Mr. Caffery saw President Grau's inquisitive, narrow face, Generalissimo Fulgencio Batista's flat, boisterous visage. Warily the three drew together. Next night Mr. Caffery went to the Palace for dinner. He told newshawks afterward that neither he nor President Grau had mentioned U. S. recognition. When President Roosevelt's non-intervention speech was published several days later, Generalissimo Batista tried his hand at a little fulsome diplomacy: "I always knew Roosevelt's policy was based on the solid, ample force of the great, free American people, which respects the rights...
...ones that are nearly whole." Beside the track they laid out 180 corpses. In an ice-crusted field, by the fog-laden light of fires and lanterns, they laid out nearly 400 injured. Among the latter were two members of the French Chamber of Deputies. Soon on the narrow dirt road into the little town of Lagny, wound a file of taxis, ambulances and delivery trucks such as had not been seen since the battle of the Marne, 19 years ago and ten miles away...