Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those stubborn fanatics who still cling to the twisting tail of the party line, I do not believe that there need be any confusion "about the role of the communist in a liberal coalition." The role of the communist has always been a strictly disciplined progress along the narrow path of his party's policy. Previous to August 1939 this policy happened to coincide largely with that of these individuals who are perforce vaguely termed liberals. The H. S. U. meeting was but one indication of the fact that these two policies no longer coincide. For this reason it must...
Lowlands had been flooded, augmenting the chain of lakes across the isthmus and leaving only narrow strips of land between the lakes as passageway for invaders. This land, wooded and boulder-studded, was a natural anti-tank defense, to which the Finns had added long lines of jagged, diamond-shaped boulders, three deep, as their main lines of defense against tanks. Above the narrow roads other huge boulders had been poised, so that the mere cutting of a cord sent them hurtling into the road. Concrete pillboxes, sunk into the earth and covered with sod, guarded all main avenues...
Education, Siepmann feels, should not be defined in a narrow academic sense, but rather as a stimulus to original and critical thought. Programs interpreting current affairs and featuring controversial issues, can lead the populace to understand other points of view than their own and to modify their preconceptions as a result, he says...
...FROM a narrow, blue sea-chest stuffed with maps, tall log-books, cash-books, account-books, diaries, and musty bills of lading. Robert Coffin has gleaned much of the material for his true tale of the voyages of Captain John Pennell and wife, Abby, of Casco Bay, Maine. From these documents he has constructed a simple New England odyssey of a Down-East family who made their home upon the sea and whose travels in a tall-masted clipper took them to every corner of a world which was much broader in 1840 than it is today...
...voluntary, are conducting themselves in a manner entirely incompatible with their obligations, and those guilty of infractions will be subjected to ruthless punishment. Every official must realize that he is there for the people and not the people there for him, and during the present difficult period bureaucratic narrow-mindedness, smallness of vision, presumptuousness and autocratic manners must cease...