Word: chasms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cliffhangers. A Study of History is dominated by an image of genius. The view is of the chasm of precipitous time. On its sheer rock walls, as the eye of the spectator adjusts itself to the somber light of human history, are seen the bodies of climbers. Some, prone and inert, lie on the ledges to which they have hurtled to death. Some dangle, arrested, over the void as they cling by their fingernails to cliffs too steep for their exhausted strength to scale. Above these, a few still strain upward in a convulsive effort to attain a height hidden...
...bottleneck to the spawning grounds had been the roaring Fraser River chasm called Hell's Gate. Railroad dynamiting in 1913 had spilled tons of rock into the gorge, partially blocking it. Thousands of salmon swimming upstream perished in the turbulent watery so that the number returning four years later was greatly decreased. The loss to the industry was measured in millions annually...
...have earned their Oxford "blue." It is pleasant to be placed in such company, but I must regretfully admit that, as an athlete, my enthusiasm far exceeded my prowess. I played rugby for my college (Queens) and was a member of its Athletic Club (track team), but the chasm between a mere college "color" and a varsity "blue" was far too wide for me to leap...
...spoken Confucian. As chairman of the Council, China's mellow statesman seemed to remember the wisdom of the Analects: "Men are born pretty much alike, but through their habits they gradually grow further and further apart from each other." Imperturbable, patient, conciliatory, Dr. Quo sought to bridge the chasm of habits. His logic was simple and overwhelming (when Gromyko asked why the chairman had halted discussion, Dr. Quo answered: "I have no more speakers on my list...
Said he: "As I looked into the vast chasm that divides the mass of the people and our middle class attempts at charity, I realized that the only way out is a democratically informed, active, participating people who have confidence in themselves and their fellowmen, a People's Organization, whose program is limited only by the horizon of humanity itself...