Word: narrows
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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With last year's boat races still in mind, and with the memory of other contests that have been won by narrow margins, a point has occured to me as I suppose to others, that perhaps has not been brought to the notice of the officials. It has always been the custom to start boat races with the sterns of the crafts even. The accurate anchoring of scows and the holding of the sterns by experienced men has invariably been arranged with considerable forethought. At the finish line the first bow to cross indicates the winner...
...Timothy W. Good was re-elected mayor of Cambridge yesterday over Mr. Wendell D. Rockwood, the candidate of the Citizens' Municipal Party, by the narrow margin of 240 votes. This was the closest vote in many years, Mr. Good winning last year by a 3,000 majority. The Democrats, however, elected only 9 of the 22 councilmen. The aldermen were divided...
Last year Cornell defeated the University by a narrow margin, and Harvard faces an equally strong team tonight. The records of the Cornell relay quartet have been especially good, and through their performance in this department the Ithacans hope to carry off the final honors...
...record of the games played to date shows five victories and one tie. The victories have all been by narrow margins, but the attack of the University eleven can hardly be blamed for this fact, as the policy has been to develop team play rather than waste energy in trying to roll up big scores. The opening contest was with Rutgers, and Princeton won by the score of 12 to 0. Bucknell was defeated the next week by 10 to 0, and then the team entered upon two hard mid-season games in preparation for the struggle with Dartmouth. Syracuse...
...work for the season and was upon the point of returning to the University, the discovery is regarded as so important that the scientists have indefinitely extended their stay in order that they may thoroughly investigate the great archaeological "find". The centuries-old villages lie buried in a narrow Nebraskan valley between two high bluffs, twenty-five miles below Omaha, near the Missouri River. The cities have been buried under the earth washed down from the neighboring hills, but in recent years a small stream has cut its way through the deposits of hundreds of years and has brought...