Word: narrows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bellingham's supermarketmen have been taking it longer than most because their city's lumber and fishing industries slipped early. Pilferage soon shot up over 1% of gross sales, took half of food retailing's narrow profit. The desperate grocers screwed up collective courage, got police to start arresting guilty customers and releasing their names to the press. Theirs was one of the few open moves against a corrosive crime that already takes at least $250 million worth of goods from U.S. supermarkets each year...
Angry Rival. "Pete" Williams' margin was narrow, but it left no doubt that Meyner is now in command of the Jersey Democrats. At the beginning of the campaign, Williams, a personable, articulate Oberlin and Columbia law graduate who was twice elected to Congress from normally Republican Union County, was a vote-drawing favorite. Then dissident Democrats in boss-ridden Hudson County broke with Meyner over patronage. Against Williams they put up John J. Grogan, 44, mayor of Hoboken and president of the Shipbuilders Union. Williams' hopes were dimmed further when New Jersey's un-merged A.F.L...
Some streets in the vicinity of the Houses are, of course, too narrow for parking even on an alternate side basis, and these should be kept entirely free of cars. But on comparatively wide streets like Mt. Auburn and Boylston, and one-way streets like Plympton and Holyoke, one-side parking does not present any fire hazard...
...back, after 2½ years, with her monologues and songs. After a travesty on Opening Numbers, she imitates a Stately Homeowner on TV, lady choristers at the Albert Hall, assorted cockneys and Yankees, a harebrained cultist and a cheery nursery-school teacher. Mimic Grenfell's satiric range is narrow, her lunges make mere surface wounds, and half a Grenfell loaf is better than all of one. But her art, if thin, is pure, and it is an art-one that flowered most richly with the late Ruth Draper. To call Joyce Grenfell a superior Draper's assistant...
...discussions of religion at Harvard, the President has invoked the University's "Christian tradition" as the guide for his beliefs and actions. In so doing, he has certainly oversimplified the Harvard tradition. There have been many Christian traditions at Harvard. The University's religious commitment has expanded form a narrow Calvinism to the lack of commitment which represents the modern Harvard. Since the late nineteenth century, Harvard's religious tradition has been based upon a minimal moral faith and an abstract principle called "Veritas." The tradition has been inclusive rather than exclusive, one of multiplicity rather than conformity...