Word: tightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have known of no such intelligent and realistic attempt to offset the evils of over-departmentalization and of high specialization as is represented by the proposal of this plan. For perfectly obvious and understandable reasons a college curriculum tends to fall into the hands of specialists working in water-tight compartments of knowledge and instinctively holding the bulkheads tightly closed that if opened would articulate one branch of knowledge with another. The inevitable result of this is failure on the part of institutions of higher education to make clear to undergraduates anything even mildly suggestive of the fact that there...
...Oliver Daniel Sullivan took turns at the controls with Second Officer George King. Directly behind sat Radio Officer William Turner Jarboe, maintaining constant touch with the directional radio beam the airliner follows. Standing nearby over a chart table was Chief Navigation Officer Frederick J. Noonan. Also there was the tight-mouthed, round-shouldered, meticulous man who is Pan American's No. 1 pilot. No. 1 Pilot. Son of a hardware man, Edwin Musick was born in St. Louis in 1894. His parents moved to California when he was 9. Young Edwin had progressed as far as the second year...
Balancing the two teams, I believe Harvard has the defensive edge, Yale the offensive. Since you have to push over touchdowns to win football games, I pick Harvard in a tight games...
...Roseau, Minn., Leon Plant, 65, indignantly refusing State and Federal relief, retired to keep house in a big, snug butter churn with a tight-fitting trap door (see cut), which he inherited four years ago from a former employer...
...modest historical importance for its reflection of current reactions to forgotten hits of the theatre, forgotten bestsellers among the novels, forgotten celebrities and scandals. Although brief readings of it give the impression that the author has richly enjoyed his tennis, his wide and indiscriminate reading, his association with the tight little group of egocentric characters who think they do New York's journalistic thinking, a more attentive study reveals such a monotony and superficiality of life as to give a cumulative effect of oppressive tedium. And a reader who followed the modern Pepys from 1911 to 1935 might...