Word: gap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mile (approximately 34 laps to the 5,000 metres). Willie Ritola, brother Finn, old rival of Nurmi, took the lead. At his heels came the flying robin's-egg jersey. Lap after lap the two circled, the field after them. Two laps from home Nurmi sprinted, left a gap of 5 yards, widened it to 10, to 15. Gamely Ritola hung on, his face twisted like a mask of torture, but this time Nurmi did not turn to look. Running like a sprinter who, throughout an afternoon's field sport, has traveled no more than 100 yards, Nurmi...
...transition from school to college, difficult at best, will prove to be too much for the stability of many Freshmen unless arrangements are improved for bridging the gap. Instead of being taught, as they were at school, almost entirely by recitation, the Harvard Freshman is to a considerable degree taught by lectures. Instead of working in a small school library, he is expected from the very first to make at least some use of an enormous university library. Instead of being frequently tested on relatively small bits of information he is tested at considerable intervals on pretty large portions...
There have been only seven such eclipses since the beginning of the Christian era. Besides 1778 when New England got its last look at this phenomenon, eclipses have occurred in the years A.D. 230, 319, 364, 985, 1079, 1478. There will be a gap of 99 years before it occurs again...
...fellow humans, we must admit the growing necessity for the development of a universal language. Until this new process is worked out in its tedious way and accepted by the nations of the world, photoradiograms, which speak the truly universal language of pictures, will go far to bridge the gap that different latitudes and tongues have interposed between the peoples of this sphere on which we live...
...lady known as "Claire", a Highland lass, actually named Kate Drummond, "slim and dark, very trim and neat, with jet-black hair." She was one of the class aptly known as "unfortunates", but Stevenson's affection for her appears rot to have been wholly sensual. Rather she filled a gap for him. He was a lonely youth, with few intimates other than his drunken cronies. She stands out significantly among all his later amours?reputable and otherwise. And Stevenson was ever the lover, his hot eager nature never happy unless his emotions were fed with passion...