Word: gap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Arnold will wrestle in the 158-pound class filling the gap left by Kaufman's temporary rise to the 175 pounders...
...lectures were apparently interesting, his audience attentive. And college audiences are not filled with sour critics, but with boys who have come definitely for the inspiration and high amusement which education should afford. When a lecturer months his lines, when he forgets his part and fills up the gap with decadent verbiage, he is "strutting his hour" rather ill. And the man in the front of the orchestra who coughs and clacks at the wrong time is equally at fault. The three a week is a hard life for all concerned. Yet improvement is not impossible...
...bought with money loaned to them by you and I for the most part, to repair the ravages wrought by other countries in the war. The towns and villages still lie in ruins, but along the entire Poland frontier stretch miles of costly barb wire entanglements through a narrow gap in which the train runs. The Polish side is guarded by a regiment of well uniformed soldiers with their lip sticks and rouged cheeks while on the Russian side there is merely a large wooded arch inscribed with the words Communism destroys frontiers...
During the absence of the Premier, the Minister of Finance, M. Louis Loucheur, had drawn up a stop-gap financial bill the provisions of which could be justified only by the undoubted fiscal emergency with which France is faced. Of all Frenchmen, M. Briand alone was thought to possess sufficient prestige to jam this bill through the Chamber and Senate. Its provisions : 1) The immediate issue of 7½ billion paper francs by the Bank of France; 6 billions to go to the depleted Treasury, and 1½ billions to supply the needs of commerce...
...Ruggles of Red Gap," an eight reel moving picture and two, one reel cartoons have been obtained by the Union officials to show at the dinner. An attempt to get the film of Charlie Chaplin in "The Gold Rush," was unsuccessful, due to the fact that it had not been displayed at a certain Cambridge theatre...