Word: gap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were in motion, and advancing columns stretched back 45 miles behind the German lines. On a 75-mile front the Allied lines gave way as the British lost 150,000 men and British and French liaison was broken. The French VI Army Corps was sent in to plug the gap and Gamelin's 9th Division, first in position, faced six German divisions rolling forward under the tremendous momentum of their advance...
...week, as the shadow of war hung over Europe, the war planet, baleful red Mars, hung bright and big over the world. Astronomers were particularly interested in the red planet, for (in astronomical figures) Mars was very close to Earth and getting closer every minute. This week the space gap between Earth and Mars dwindles to 36,030,000 miles-the nearest approach in 15 years. Astronomers have been scanning and photographing Mars for weeks, this week will redouble their efforts. But to the old and battered question which still fascinates laymen-does intelligent life on Mars exist-astronomers good...
...leader is grey-haired, pink-faced Fred Voigt, one of the ablest newspapermen in England and a close friend of Sir Robert Vansittart, famed Foreign Office careerist. Printed on a hand press in an Old Gloucester Street basement, Arrow comes out on Friday, helps to fill the weekend gap in British news. Its policy: ''England must be strong...
Invitation to Happiness (Paramount). Prize fighters are not numerous, but the recurrent movies about the marital problems of prize fighters who marry above them have attained national significance. Most piquant of the recent lot, Invitation to Happiness bridges the social gap in a one-reel leap, thenceforth takes up where most palooka-heiress movies leave off, to see what may happen to such an alliance in, say, ten years...
...Army was cock-of-the-walk, and all Germans, even Socialists, gawped at it in awe. Although the Nazi army (1,000,000 men) is not the old Army's equal either in training or in tailored splendor, it tries to carry on the tradition. But the "Versailles gap" (1919-34), a period in which conscription was prohibited, has left the Germans weak in well-trained reserves, short on crack lieutenants and captains. The gap was not complete, however, because some German officer material was lent to train the Russian, Chinese, Bolivian armies. Young officers are being rushed through...