Word: chasms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite this progress, surprisingly rapid since 1902 and surprisingly sane, the chasm which separated the educated privileged classes from the uneducated masses has not yet been fully bridged. Much remains to be done before the selfish old system which reserved education for the privileged classes is finally overthrown, but it is only fair to say that today both the "public schools" and the universities of England, old as well as new, are open to talent, no matter what the accidents of birth. At Oxford it has been recently shown, "out of 1,263 male students who matriculated in the year...
...proceed with his present raconteuring. As he meandered . . . among the now paved walks of the Yard, he realized fully that his gaze rested on the glory and the grandeur of a past era. A yawning chasm, with concrete foundation, had replaced the roaming greensward of past years. It was ugly and repellent in the promise of its towering potentiality, a potentiality that upon realization will change the Yard into a Wall Street of shadow and skyscrapers. It would be more fitting, the Vagabond mused, as a monument to a deceased Harvard Yard than to a partisan memory...
...ball has many a potent defender, among them the American Golfer (habitually friendly to acts of the U. S. G. A.). Said Associate Editor Innis Brown last week: "Admitting that the new ball widens the chasm between the high handicap man and the low; and that it tends to accentuate the slice; yet the 'dub' who could not get the maximum result from the old ball, can from the new. The new ball was designed to bring back the use of wooden clubs and long irons on the fairway-the use of clubs for which the course...
...Chamber of Commerce went into session in Washington last week for its 18th annual meeting. Gravely because, first quarter over, Business has not started the long march from Depression to Prosperity, merely marks time, seems dazed at its narrow escape from a drop into the sheer chasm of Panic. Well might the businessmen assembled last week have remarked, together with the venerable Commercial & Financial Chronicle: "Verily, trade and business in this country have undergone great shrinkage...