Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sight. At 6:20 one morning early this month, a Piper P18 duster plane with Félix at the stick rose over Santa Clara and headed into bucking head winds for the Florida Keys. Rafael, shivering in his thin vinyl jacket, was precariously perched half out of the narrow cockpit, with one leg braced against a wing strut. After two hours of buffeting, Félix, who had never flown in bad weather before, ditched the tiny plane a few hundred yards off Damas Cays, a string of small barren islets about 100 miles northeast of Santa Clara. Swimming...
...Kimball's apartment opens on a narrow, well worn, and slightly fish-smelling staircase near the middle of the building. After maneuvering around several sharp corners, we arrived at the top, directly confronting Maria Kimball. She greeted us right hand fairly defiantly extended, feet firmly planted as if to counter a ship's pitch, and left hand crammed against her hip like a sailor...
Moreover, at the undergraduate level, Pappenheimer favors general scientific training rather than narrow specialization. "The whole raison d'etre of Biochemical Sciences," he maintains, "is the feeling that advances in biology and medicine are dependent upon the broad tools of science...
...varsity squash team will take on a top-flight Williams squad tomorrow afternoon at 4 p.m. in the Hemenway courts. Williams took four individual matches from Princeton in the Eph-Tiger meeting last Saturday, and the narrow margin of Princeton's victory is a good indication of Williams' overall ability...
Usually less colorful than this, the informality that runs through extracurricular life does apply to the undergraduate experience as a whole. The 'New Coll.' man is much freer than his Harvard counterpart to determine the quality and scope of his education. If the curriculum is narrow, the professors distant, and living conditions rough, the undergraduate does at least have time and a wealth of opportunity to widen his own interests...