Word: gap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remedy: "To bridge the gap between the church and organized labor in America the editor intends to start in the near future a Religion and Labor Bureau, which shall be nondenominational and nonsectarian, and which will include both church and labor leaders on its board...
...husbandman's complaint, expressed through his representatives to the Senate committee, was specific: By raising tariff rates on manufacturers and raw materials as well as on agricultural products, the House bill had failed to diminish the gap of economic inequality between Industry and Husbandry. Louis John Taber, Master of the National Grange, stated it thus: Industry enjoys a 40% tariff protection; the House bill raised Husbandry's protection to 31%, another 9% must be forthcoming from the Senate...
...this new Prohibition drive Archibald Eugster, 21, with three companions, loaded 35 cases of Canadian liquor for which they paid $1,258, into their speed boat and started across. At the mouth of the River Rouge a Customs boat gave chase. Ten cases were jettisoned without widening the gap between the two boats. The rum-runners beached their craft, took to their heels. Customs Inspector Jonah Cox landed, stood guard over the liquor while his comrade went back to headquarters for assistance. Eugster & friends came back. A fight started. Eugster was shot by Cox, died the next clay...
With the thought, enthusiasm, and money which has been expended in late years in reforming, if not wholly remodeling institutions of higher learning, there has become ever more apparent, the fact that the gap between the universities and the secondary schools not only has by no means been bridged, but rather is increasingly widening. Such must, indeed, inevitably be the case, the colleges advancing rapidly along the lines both of greatly diversifying their curricula and at the same time emphasizing specialization, the schools remaining essentially stationary both in courses of study offered, and in the attitude taken to them...
Cambridge traffic would be helped by this improvement, most of all by the new drives on the Boston bank which would fill in the present gap between Bay State Road and Otter St. The new drive would pass under the arches of the Harvard and Longfellow bridges and would thus give a continuous road which, after crossing Cambridge St., Brighton, at the end of the River St. bridge at grade, will have no other crossing at grade until it reaches the 'end of the Charles River Dam where it connects with Nashua St., which is now being widened. This...