Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...busily spotted cranks and radicals, gave last-minute tips to Dominion constabulary on how to guard their King and Queen. Four royal maroon Royal automobiles, two long (155-inch wheelbase), fur-rugged Buicks, a Chrysler and a Ford, were ready for Their Majesties and one toured Quebec's narrow crooked streets, testing sharp turns. Priests and nuns rehearsed 25,000 school children for a pageant of greeting to Their Majesties on the Plains of Abraham. Kiwanians, Rotarians, Knights of Columbus got final instructions in how to cheer. (Raise hat, give three lusty cheers. Then hold hat in the right...
...Xerxes crossed the Hellespont on a bridge of boats in the summer of 480 B. c., and marched through Thessaly. Herodotus recorded that he had 1,800,000 men; modern historians say about 180,000. Leonidas, king of Sparta, met him with only 7,000 men at Thermopylae, a narrow strip of dry shore between the cliffs of Mount Oeta and the swampy border of the Maliac Gulf. Hearing that a big detachment of Persians had found a way around the pass, Leonidas sent 5,000 soldiers to head them off. Xerxes then effected a great slaughter against the remaining...
Yale's record has been much more favorable than Harvard's. Against the Dartmouth Indians Captain Phil Hammond's team lost 13 to 7, whereas the Elis bowed by the narrow margin of 9 to 8. Rather than succumbing to Pennsylvania's drives as the Crimson did, the New Haven ten eked out a 14 to 13 victory...
William J. Bingham '16, Harvard Athletic Director, refused to comment officially; Yale's Athletic Director is in New York and could not be reached yesterday. However, officials at both colleges stated that the "channel is too narrow, and the currents are too varying for three crews...
...Amherst linksmen handed the Crimson golfing forces their second defeat in as many starts yesterday afternoon at Belmont when they picked up 2 1/2 points in the best ball matches for a narrow 5 to 4 decision over the home team...