Word: gap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Republic-Youngstown amalgamation, which has on several occasions appeared all but ratified, may yet be arranged, and Chicago's Inland Steel Company, in which Mr. Eaton is heavily interested, is also a potential member of the combination. The Republic group at present lacks a rail-making member-a gap which Inland would fill. Present ranking of the leading steel companies...
...similar arrangement, it is interesting to regard the somewhat analogus question with which the third member of the extinct alliance is concerning itself. At Princeton the Utility and desirability of an undergraduate center is under discussion. The situation is in some respects similar to that of Harvard. The widening gap between clubmen and nonclubmen makes for the same sort of disintegrating influence as is here ascribed to unwieldy size and minute division into cliques...
This movement to give Harvard a practical school of the theatre was begun in order that the gap left by the departure of George Pierce Baker and his 47 Workshop might be filled. Tonight's meeting was the culmination of a long period of work by Harvard undergraduates who felt the need of such a school, and have been engaged for several months in sounding the student body of the University with regard to the possible, establishment of such a course of study. The plans which were completed tonight call for a course to be given during the second half...
...plans fill a gap which the present organization of the Council left open. It has been rightfully felt that the round table discussions and entertainments of the last two years have not been adequate to creating the more intimate relationship between foreign and native-born students which a less formal arrangement might afford...
...professor-and-student-on-a-log" doctrine of which Mark Hopkins was wont to dream, seems to be relegated to the limbo of unattainable idealism. Yet these two courses are but collssi among a race of giants. With four other courses attracting more than five hundred men apiece, the gap between the fountain head of learning and the disciple grows immeasurably wide...