Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boxcar and heading for the knacker. They look at each other, they look at what life has done to them, and gently one of them grins and makes a joke; another takes it from there, and suddenly all together they laugh and laugh and laugh until fate's narrow boxcar bursts and the theater booms with an immense amen to life...
Allan Gardner won two epee points and the outcome for the match was undecided until the last rounds, despite enormous foil losses. The Big Red outplayed the Crimson in the epee class, however, to clinch their victory by a narrow margin...
Yale, on the strength of a 2-0 record, is currently leading the Ivy League, and the Elis' narrow margin of victory-the game was not decided until the last seven minutes-indicates Cornell's overall ability...
...estimated one in 50 priests has a "delayed vocation." Among notable examples: Cardinals Newman (45) and Manning (42). No upper age limit will be set at the new seminaries. Says Cardinal Gushing: "The response to the divine calling to the priesthood can come at any age. Surely we,cannot narrow the divine call, 'Come, follow...
...family farm in Wahoo, Neb. when he got a crush on his pretty high school science teacher. Neither Beadle nor science ever quite got over it. The farm boy went to college and became a geneticist. With skill, patience and insatiable curiosity he helped to transform his narrow, abstruse specialty into a vital branch of science. Moving on from the classic fruit-fly experiments which had extended the study of heredity, Beadle began to investigate the intricate internal chemistry of bread mold. His observations led to a major scientific breakthrough: the first intimations of the manner in which genes control...