Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This narrow parking space is little better than its predecessor. The noise of the motorcycles will disturb almost as many students as before. Leverett and Lowell House rather than Kirkland, Winthrop and Eliot will suffer now. At least the lot could have been placed a little further away from Lowell up Plympton Street. A parking lot several walking minutes from the latter houses makes it almost absurd for a student there to own a motorcycle, presumably purchased for use on short trips...
Squabbles in the Web. The U.S.'s efforts to narrow the space gap since Sputnik I have slogged along under a heavy handicap of organizational confusion. Central in the confusion is an arbitrary, irrelevant division of space programs into "civilian" (Glennan's NASA) and "military" (Johnson's ARPA). Coordination between the two domains is supposedly achieved by the Civilian-Military Liaison Committee, the real purpose of which seems to be to provide a roost for amiable, ineffectual William M. Holaday, who was head of the abolished guided missiles office. But that basic split-up is only...
...past, the Rugby Club has always had difficulty in getting enough men to field a team, but before yesterday's scrimmage with M.I.T., 30 men were warming up for the Crimson. Although hampered by darkness and a narrow field, the team showed a fast and able three-quarter line and a stiff defense as it played out a 0-0 tie with the Panthers...
...Gaulle had shown no public interest in the rebels' reply, neither had he publicly denounced it. The sides were closer together now than ever before, and it was a reasonable guess that both De Gaulle and the rebels were brooding over the next discreet effort to narrow the gap. As Rome's Il Tempo put it: "The door is closed, but the window is open...
...narrow patriotism of our age is dangerously close to leading us to national suicide," William G. Saltonstall '28, Headmaster of Phillips Exeter Academy and member of the Board of Overseers, told the Harvard World Federalists last night...