Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...sliding wooden cover. Upon the sensitive plate were laid two clear glass slips, less than one sixteenth of an inch thick. A space was left between them about four inches long and one half an inch deep. Across the glass slips to hold them in place was put a narrow bar of pine wood five-sixteenths of an inch thick. The wooden cover, three-sixteenths of an inch thick, was then pushed into place. The wooden box thus prepared was placed within a covered pasteboard box, the walls of which were about one thirty-second of an inch thick...
...yards run. Burke, the champion quarter-mile runner was too heavily handicapped to do himself justice. About twelve men started in the final heat and for the first lap they were closely bunched; then Powers of St. Paul's S. A. A. took the lead and won by a narrow margin. Blakemore of Harvard came in third...
According to the votes of this large jury the Harvard team beat that of the Twelfth Regiment; the New York Athletic Club beat the Racquet Club, and in the finals the Fencers' Club defeated the Harvard team by the narrow margin of one vote out of a jury of about fifteen. The Harvard team was composed of J. P. Parker '96, J. E. Hoffman '96, and A. G. Thacher '97. Hoffman showed the greatest improvement over last year's form. Among the New York fencers were Messrs. Post, Bothner and Townsend, who finished in the order named in the amateur...
...these reasons, Rosecrans adopted the bold plan of striking directly south, across the river and over a succession of mountain ridges, passable only by narrow gorges, to the railroads which brought Bragg his supplies from the South...
...many members of this so-called nobility, who have learned absolutely nothing from the great revolution and from modern social evolution. Second, that the education to be obtained in the schools, lycees and universities of the French Republic, is infinitely more thorough, broader, more liberal, more moral than the narrow, loose and sectarian education of the religious orders and especially of Jesuits, who have been so vigorously and justly denounced by philosophers and statesmen from Pascal to Gambetta and Jules Ferry and including Montesquieu, Voltaire and de Choiseul...