Word: gap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...believe, is the only man who could correctly forecast the impending struggle. He, alas, is gone. (Fine fellow, Joe, shame he drank.) I can only attempt to fill the gap by predicting that very few seats will be vacant in the Stadium, that no matter what happens, the game afterwards will be described as "clean, hard football", and that broken fields will have little or no edge on broken bottles...
...Vagabond spent his youth, and the chief grievance he has against the city of Cambridge is that it produces nothing in the way of processions save an occasional boy scout troop on patriotic occasions and a few torch-bearing automobiles the night before election. The Army game fills this gap in his emotional life very successfully, and after he has trailed the cadet lines down the streets and across the river he is reconciled to his lot once more. All during the past week a feeling of restlessness has been growing more and more pronounced, and most disconcertingly the Vagabond...
...considering a new move in his "athletics for all" policy which would consist of organizing intercollegiate football competition in a 150 pound class. The wisdom of such a plan and the advisability of carrying it into effect can hardly be questioned for such a team would bridge a gap between the University and the class teams and at the same time would open a new field of athletic competition in football. Crew has already blazed the trail in special weight classes and there is no reason why this idea which has proved so successful in the spring sport should...
...minutes signal drill in which Putnam. Wetmore and Gleason led the A, B, and C combinations, respectively. Ben Ticknor reported with blistered feet and was excused from the drill, Gildea taking his place on Team A, and Cunningham moving up to Team B. Art Devens then jumped into the gap at center on Team...
With equally bright insight, some impersonality, average epigrams and over all a great unconscious pathos continues the story of how Ex-Wife tried to make Ex-Husband's image dead in her heart. Numerous distractions, hard liquor, hard work and handsome men fill a certain gap, until she marries one of the last. Heroine and author are a bobbed, grey-eyed, short brunette still short of 30, mother of a five-year-old son. She is Katharine Ursula Parrott, ex-wife of Reporter Lindsay Parrott of the New York Evening Post...