Word: gap
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...such an event should not become an annual affair, to be held under the auspices of some athletic club. It is obvious that this race could not be run at the Mott Haven games, however, for four strong middle distance runners taken from any team would make a gap that could not easily be filled...
...second is the period of Edinburgh, and Ellisland. In 1787 appeared his second book of poetry, and in 1790 his "Tam O' Shanter," that excellent combination of the terrible and the ludicrous. More pieces of this sort would have bridged the gap between him and the first class poet. The third period is the melancholy one of his last days, but in which he often sings at his best...
Fortunately however, England is beginning to awake, but can this be said of us Americans? We do not yet recognize the Golden Rule. Many a poor man would willingly work and better himself but is dragged down by social conditions that are rapidly widening the gap between the rich and the poor. Whatever the gains in wealth, hatred between employer and employee is becoming more and more marked. We want less luxury more good will. In politics, too, private interests have taken the place of patriotism. Parties are held together only by gigantic systems of bribery...
...however, perfect brethren, for we have the problems of immigration, of labor, that the gap between rich and poor may not be widened. We are not bound together as brothren, until we can have a democracy industrially. Government, too, is still to progress to a power of common, fraternal control. We have passed from despotism to individualism and are on our way to fraternalism...
...transcending all knowledge. Above all, people learned that it is desirable and possible to approach this God directly. The pagans, in the church of the middle ages, had constructed a process of mediation, but perhaps they were excusable because it was but the first attempt to bridge over the gap between...