Word: gap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...religious influence of Egypt. Most valued find was a ewer inscribed with characters like magnifications of bizarre microbes. On examination this writing revealed affinities with Sinaitic scripts discovered near Mt. Sinai and with Phoenician scripts found in Syria. Orientalists were excited at this unexpected bridging of an ancient linguistic gap...
...bell rang. Between two spheres the size of grapefruit leaped an electric flash. The gap was only six inches, but the flash was blinding, the report thunderous. The voltage was not extraordinary (150,000), but the amperage was?250,000. The current used by a 40-watt incandescent bulb is about one-third of an ampere. Two hundred fifty thousand amperes is a greater current than man has ever produced, a greater current than natural lightning...
...cloud, hitchhiking on thermal currents. Over the rugged Alleghanies he soared in silence, flew south along the Susquehanna River. Over Scranton he ran out of clouds; dropped to 500 ft. Hot air over the city pushed him up again, enabled him to float serenely through the Delaware Water Gap. With the skyscrapers of Manhattan just visible in the distance, he ran out of clouds again, dropped to 200 ft. over the flat Jersey countryside, was forced to land at an airport in Basking Ridge.* He had missed his father's prize money by five miles...
Much has been said and even more, perhaps, has been written about the transition from school to college. Too little, apparently, has been done to bridge the gap that obviously exists for many...
...products, bought the foundry (La Societe Generale des Hauts Feurneaux) for 2,500,000 francs--and were then forced to wait for almost twenty years for their first major war. War-promotion methods in those days were not what they were to become later in the century, but that gap was neatly bridged by the demands that the new steambeats and the even newer railroads were making on the producers of iron and steel. Pheu, in 1854, the Crimean War broke out, and Eagene (alone now, following Adolph's death) converted l.e. Creusot almost exclusive to the manufacture of arms...