Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Professor Neilson said he did not wish to see this country plunged too recklessly into the leadership of the world, but would have us keep in the narrow path of truth both in our relations with other nations and in our internal affairs...
...exciting race the 1919 four lost to Pomfret School at Pomfret by the narrow margin of a quarter length. The Freshman got the jump at the start and maintained their lead until the last 200 yards. When the schoolboys set a pace which the University yearlings could not keep up with. At the finish the Pomfret boat swept across the line in record time for that courses, 2 minutes 51 seconds...
Once a month, meetings are held at the Laboratory of the Boston Section of the Radio Institute, which is an international body of Radio-Telegraphic Engineers. These meetings are well attended and have proved of much interest. The work done at the laboratory, although primarily devoted to an apparently narrow special field, in reality covers a considerable portion of the subject of electricity, and is valuable as a part of a general scientific education...
...arousing real intellectual turmoil. A great many staid conservative students wander unsuspectingly into Economics A, and are startled to learn that protectionism is not a doctrine of certified divine origin. It worries them for a time to find that the universe of thought is not entirely plotted into straight, narrow, and exclusive paths; then they weather the crisis and return smugly to the old beliefs. But this stirring up has done some good; and more stirrings up would do more good. Recently an examination paper in politics at Columbia consisted entirely of quotations from daily newspapers. This...
...fast scrimmage against the Harvard Club seven at the Arena yesterday afternoon gave the University hockey team a victory by the narrow margin of 2 goals to 1. The team played in somewhat ragged form, and only several pretty stops by Wylde and some poor shooting by the Harvard Club wings decided the scrimmage in the University's favor. Baker scored against the Harvard Club after some clever stick-handling and a few minutes later a good piece of team-work gave the Harvard Club a goal. Fisher gave the University team the lead when he played the puck neatly...