Word: chasms
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...Parliament, were held plenary meetings of Fascist and Socialist Opposition Deputies. The first assembled to hear a speech from Premier Mussolini; the second to approve a proclamation to the Italian people. Reports of both meetings were published in Italian newspapers at the same time and they showed the yawning chasm which divides political Italy. This is particularly brought out by The New York Times, which presented the chief points made in the form of a dialog...
...trace the progress of this malignant disease, which threatens the very foundation of Constitutional Government, we need only survey the wide chasm which separates Carl Schurz, Secretary of the Interior in Garfield's Cabinet, from Albert B. Fall, Harry M. Daugherty and others of intimate and daily association with this Administration...
...notorious fact that nations, as nations, never repent. The North expected the South to repent the Civil War-without avail. But Grant's magnanimity and Lee's gentlemanliness after the war did much to bridge a yawning chasm of hate...
...political development at which it is proper to consider and put into practice a more rational means of settling international disputes than by the accustomed resort to arms. To the intellectually timid this seems such a daring and impetuous leap from the secure confines of precedent, over the chasm of unfathomable disaster, to the safe but somewhat precarious region of a new and better international life, that they lose no opportunity to be-little its advantages and magnify its difficulties. Such men are utterly out of tune with the age in which they live; in their minds they are living...
...interesting fact that the motive which actuated Harvard in devising and adopting its "new plan" of admission may be seen at work in other quarters. The motive was that of bridging the chasm between the College and the schools of the country which had not been making it primarily their business to fit their pupils for entering Harvard or any other college, but had been trying to give them a sound, general, if so-called "secondary" education. These boys, in many widely scattered parts of the country, were often boys of the sort that Harvard has felt itself qualified...