Word: gap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...order. Taking a subject about which everyone has speculated—the financial insecurity of old age—the picture examines the case of Barkley Cooper (Victor Moore) and his wife Lucy (Beulah Bondi). Adapted by Vina Delmar from Josephine Lawrence's novel, directed by Leo McCarey (Ruggles of Red Gap), the story is presented with rare cinematic honesty. It is acted by Victor Moore, in his first serious cinema role, and seasoned Beulah Bondi, with that effortless perfection which, because it can come only from long experience, all younger actors lack. The result is one of the most persuasive documents about...
...from the space between the two cylinders. When the vacuum has been created, the liquid to be distilled flows down over the surface of the warm inner cylinder. As the liquid flows, molecules of vitamin A or D or other light substances pop off, jump the inter-cylinder gap, condense on the inner wall of the bigger cylinder. Condensed, they dribble down into a container, while the heavier fluid flowing down the inner cylinder runs off into a second pair of evacuated cylinders...
...University, the House masters as well as University Hall, recognize that it has an intolerable situation on its hands. With hundreds of students up in arms because they cannot share in the advantages of the House Plan, it is obvious that some action, even if only a stop-gap solution should be take to salve the justly wounded students who have been left unplaced...
...While many efforts have been made to close the gap between receipts and expenditures, such efforts have not been completely successful. It seems that the time has about come-indeed, it has already arrived-when we should give careful consideration to that subject. . . . Insofar as I am informed, we have about exhausted the sources of taxation to which Congress is willing and able to resort...
...boys gathered on the half-mile pony track anext the Charles, and John Fugard of Evanston, Illinois, stepped out with "Butch". If was nip and tuck for the first half-mile, but Fritz Iwasko, the flash from Detroit, began to widen a considerable gap...