Word: narrows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were many small strikes and one big attempt at a general strike, all defeated. The nation wanted unity and strength and was willing to back him. The extreme Left felt betrayed but the Right (except for a few strong-headed nationalists) forgave him all. Even so, he had many narrow escapes from being overthrown. Late last December he staved off defeat by only seven votes...
...junior singles A. Lincoln outrowed R. Cram in the time of 6:02. Hughes Call won the Narrow Comp race in the time of 4:00; R. Wilcox won the Broad Comp race in the time of 3:69. King won the 150-lb singles...
Rowing over a three-quarter mile course instead of the usual mile, due to poor wind conditions, H. F. Atherton eked out a narrow victory over Peter Cunningham in the senior singles. His time was 5:29, comparatively slow because of the unfavorable weather...
...were ashore, the correspondents rushed around ferreting out interesting facts about their private arrangements. Plump, ebullient Dixie Tighe of the Philadelphia Record, and New York Post plunged even deeper into the Royal private life, cabled her papers that at Quebec's Citadel the King and Queen slept in narrow beds in separate rooms, with a low door between. The door had a knocker on each side. Though the King and Queen had running water in their private bathrooms, members of their entourage had to use old-fashioned wash basins. "The wash bowl sets," added thoroughgoing Miss Tighe, "are absolutely...
Afrequent criticism of Mr. Coffin's poetry is that it is too narrow in scope. His treatment of Maine people, Maine customs, landscapes, and feelings, is acknowledged to be of a particularly perceptive and persuasive type, but beyond Maine and a few scattered corners of New England, Mr. Coffin's ability as a poet does not exist. It is said that he is a "regionalist," and that his poems can be understood in their full implications only by the elect versed in the ways of those exceptional anthropoids who carry on their own quaint, inbred existence north of Portland...