Word: narrows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy seems to be displaying the same narrow-mindedness today as did their 1926 predecessors when Billy Mitchell received the bum's rush. To hear the Navy talk, you'd think they invented the airplane...
...turn of the century, eight dailies were crammed together on the narrow, twisting section of Washington Street in downtown Boston called "Newspaper Row." Eight was too many. There, elbowing each other for space and circulation, the Boston papers developed their traditional pattern of frantic promotions, flashy makeup and lackadaisical reporting...
...vans equipped with loudspeakers drive through the city begging people to get inoculated. In narrow alleys drummers parade like town criers, carrying the same message. But as in every year, all these efforts have come too late. Though 400 inoculators have been at work since November, they reached only 300,000 out of 4,000,000 people in five months. One reason: the money for the necessary hypodermic syringes just never showed up. When the epidemic struck in earnest, five of the city's 22 ambulances had been condemned as useless, and ten more were under repair. Only...
Wright found his site the Wright way. Circling in over Baghdad by airplane, he spotted a long narrow island in the middle of the Tigris. He discovered that it was royal property, went straight to King Feisal II. Recounts Wright: "The young king took me by the arm, smiled and said, 'It is yours.' " Unimpressed by its popular name, Pig Island, Wright promptly rechristened it Edena (for the Garden of Eden). He soon noted an unancient problem: newly prosperous Baghdad is rapidly filling up with automobiles. His solution is in the earthen ziggurats that Harun al-Rashid used...
...other side, Councilor Charles A. Watson said "The whole problem has been overemphasized. Harvard parking is not an inconvenience to Cambridge citizens. The trouble arises from short narrow streets where parking is a hazard in bad weather, and Harvard has done an effective job on keeping those streets clear...