Word: narrows
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...good fortune, was a whole tableau in itself; it meant a chapter every night, sermons an hour long, and Sunday school every Sabbath; it meant a long and tearful discussion between Mr. and Mrs. Buttefield, senior, and Mrs. Butterfield's mother, at Benjamin Emilius' birth; it meant a narrow escape from such biblical prefixes as Arphaxad, Peleg, Uz, Mash, Hazarmaveth, and the like...
...Creep into its narrow...
Moriarty's, the great resort of the Yale boys, had a narrow escape during the recent conflagration in New Haven...
...that it more than supplied that want. Now that that paper has died, the same want again exists, after having been once partially satisfied. That want is not now, we believe, by any means adequately supplied by the University Bulletin. An official publication must necessarily be of too narrow and technical a scope to serve as an organ and exponent of Harvard before the public. For it is probably too much to ask that it assume anything like a literary character so as to appeal to general interests as the Register did to a certain extent...
...view, and in the conditions under which scholarships and honors are granted, we often find an entirely arbitrary standard of excellence. There are always men "on the line" who are exultant in case of success, but who suffer corresponding grief in case of failure; in both cases, by narrow margins, the marks are given out, and perhaps one finds another man has beaten him by one or one and one-half per cent. Thus it runs down in the rank of scholarship, and hardly any ambition satisfied except that of the man at the head. The honor is usually...