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Word: narrows (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME applauds Student Krisel's attempt but prefers Franklin Roosevelt's own plans of his Hyde Park "dream house." Some objections to the Krisel plan: the kitchen is too narrow, the pantry at the wrong end, windows badly spaced, partitions awkwardly arranged; and there is no way into the farther bedroom except through the nearer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 14, 1938 | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

Most doubtful this morning was the election for the position of Atterney-General, where the present incumbent, Paul A. Dever, was making heavy inroads on an early lead piled up by Barnes. It appeared probble that when the final returns are in Dever will be reelected by a narrow margin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SALTONSTALL AND LEHMAN WIN | 11/9/1938 | See Source »

...election day thousands of impoverished, illiterate industrial workers and underpaid, overworked pampinos from the nitrate fields in the north, cast their ballots for Candidate Aquirre. Result was an upset to the hacendados, confident of victory. Aquirre defeated Ross by a narrow margin of 4,000 votes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: Two Millionaires | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...same blood group (TIME, Dec. 13). Clara's distant cousin, John Melvin Bonner, 16, offered to risk his skin. Dr. Moran slit a strip of skin 16 inches long, half-inch wide, from John's armpit to his hip. He rolled it lengthwise into a narrow tube, attached the upper end of the tube to Clara's body. He assumed that John's blood would nourish the tube until it became firmly rooted in Clara. He would then detach it from John, spread it and plant it on Clara...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Vampire | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...Rockefellers was to "show us how little we need this type of architecture now." Said he: "What has been done for you, or to you, here in Williamsburg, has advanced our cause of modern, organic architecture greatly, but not in the way it was intended. It shows how narrow, how shallow life was in Colonial days. I have long ceased to take off my hat to our forefathers, seeing what a mess they left us." Up in arms, as one man, rose Colonial-conscious Virginia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 7, 1938 | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

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