Word: narrowing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...test and spot these defenses. German coastal cannon planted at Calais, Cap Gris Nez. Boulogne might aid in trying to reduce the British bases. Britain's coastal batteries have long range but are old. Heavy units of the Royal Navy, scarcely daring to contest invading forces in the narrow straits area, would probably withdraw to stations up the west British coast or down the French coast at Le Havre Cherbourg, Brest. To light units, though vulnerable to air bombs, would fall a large part of the defensive work...
...Kirkland Deacons are clinging to a narrow 4 1/2 point lead over Lowell as the annual House athletic derby rapidly nears its conclusion. Up-to-date figures give the Deacons 1432 1/2 points for their season's efforts as against 1428 for the Bellboys, with no other House having the slightest mathematical chance of placing...
...second heat, Dick Both '40 came in a narrow first with a time of 4:01 against a wind of near-gale proportions through a nasty chop. R. Newhall who placed second was also given a place in the finals because of the difficulty which Coach Blake Dennison had in determining the true winner...
...which 47 miles of road end in trackless mountains stretching another 87 crow-line miles to Narvik. They were hurried ahead to cut off a Norse contingent and some 300 remnant British who, retreating north from Namsos, delayed the Nazi column's progress by blasting and barricading the narrow highway...
...lost only to Amherst--in a non-league clash. And it has been no small task to decide which six men were the best six golfers on the squad on one particular day. A couple of bad guesses might have turned at least one of those triumphs into a narrow defeat...