Word: chasms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most of their own possibilities. If a house has a real esprit de corps, the upper-classmen will share this interest in the new men, and will be of immense assistance in the process of getting the Freshmen adjusted to their new surroundings. In other words, the proverbial chasm between school and college will be bridged at last...
...prints of lower Manhattan Island, the outstanding feature is a slim spire rising high above the shops, residences and counting houses around it-the spire of Trinity Church. Nowadays the only distant prospect of Trinity spire is up that chasm of counting houses from which residences long ago departed, Wall Street...
...life spanned the 18th century (1703-1791), thus antedating Darwin, but he seems nevertheless to have left a suggestion to his posthumous flock in Tennessee: "The whole progress of nature is so gradual, that the entire chasm from a plant to a man, is filled up with divers kinds of creatures, rising one above another, by so gentle an ascent, that the transitions from one species to another are almost insensible. . . . The ape is this rough draught of man: this rude sketch. . . ." Indeed Wesley had written A Survey of the Wisdom of God in the Creation: or, A Compendium...
...chasm still yawned between interest rates on deposits and on call money. Opinions were divided on the possibility of curbing speculation by refusing to lend money on behalf of corporations. The corporations, for example, might lend their money directly, ignoring the banks. Or they might start a bank of their own. There seemed, last week, a number of ways by which the money market might be taken out of the control of the Federal Reserve and of its member banks...
...evils, and benefits associated with the Reading Period. "Although the students in general seem to have profited from the Reading Period," writes Dean Hanford, "the greatest good was perhaps derived by the honor men and those with a high C average." In one sentence he points indirectly to the chasm within the ranks of students not only in Harvard College but in every university and college in the country, that is, the widening of the gulf which separates the A and B and high C students from the C, low C, D and E students. If the Reading Period...