Word: narrows
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...barrier formed by the Appalachian Mountains, the early colonists remained east of these mountains until this area was thickly settled. The unity of interests, brought about by this close association of the colonies, made possible a successful revolution against the mother-country. As the pressure increased within this narrow strip of land, emigration pushed out through the passes of the Appalachians. The Kentucky Blue Grass country was then developed and as the tide flowed across the Mississippi, the great prairies of the west were taken up, until the Bad Lands at the base of the Rocky Mountains checked the emigrants...
...Hotel Rambouillet with its assemblage of wits, afterwards so well painted by the pen of Moliere in his Precieuses Ridicules, which was called upon to render judgment upon the new play "Polyeuctes" by P. Corneille. Though even these dry, narrow critics were carried away by the power of the play, they felt that it would never do to encourage so original and imaginative an effort, and accordingly they condemned it because its author had had the audacity to introduce the Christian religion as an important factor in his work...
...this year among all Harvard men. Last year it was the general impression among those who knew, that our material in Cambridge would make a team that was more than a match for Yale, but when we came to the trial of our strength we met defeat by a narrow margin...
...this narrow margin that we must be sure to overcome this year, and I only echo the sentiments of many graduates when I make this direct appeal to all undergraduates who can be possible candidates for the team to help in the work to come. Every one who has the slightest ability on the track, or who has the inclination to try, should present himself to the captain and Mr. Lathrop as a candidate for the team. With many good men of last year's team either ineligible or out of college we are in need of material this year...
...love to sit here and recall it, and think that it is all there." It lies in our own choice with what pictures we may fill our minds, whether our inward eye shall command noble prospects over the whole domain of human thoughts, or shall be bounded by the narrow alley of a merely utilitarian training...