Word: gap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beat down to about 30, while the Jayvees, steadily falling behind, kept up a good 32 or 33 until the end. The first shell reached the mile mark in 4 minutes, 56 seconds, with the Jayvee boat trailing by a little over a length, and easily widened the gap of blue water to a length in the remaining 3-4 mile...
After an initial spurt by Tech which gave them a temporary lead, the Tiger cubs were able to walk away with the Freshman event at a steady beat of 32 which kept widening the gap of open water behind them until they were victorious over Tech by four lengths, and over Harvard by five. The respective clocking for the race, which was over the 1 3-4 mile course, are as follows: Princeton, 9 minutes, 19 seconds; M.I.T., 9 minutes, 32 1-5 seconds; Harvard, 9 minutes, 35 seconds...
Britain, off gold since 1931, loudly feared the loss of her tremendous export trade advantage over the U. S. as the gap between the pound and the dollar quickly narrowed. To many a Londoner the President's action looked like an attempt to horsewhip Britain into line for some sort of currency agreement. Rapping the President's action as "a deliberate stroke of policy." the Duke of Northumberland's Morning Post warned against a "disorderly race of currency depreciation." The angriest shriek came from the Financial News: "Wilful sabotage could not go much further. . . . The whole business...
...hoped that the range of choice will not continue to be limited in these ways, else the gap between the ideal propounded a few months ago, and the reality now emerging, will become more and more painful. Criticism can not be very severe against the present choices in themselves, but it has every right to be, as they measure up to a special expectation. In all but one instance, these men, exceptional as their records are, have been subjected to the older sort of graduate work. Particular conditions of study planned for the Fellows must have a changing influence...
...Lewis J. Selznick, son-in-law of Louis B. Mayer, went to MGM for a fat salary two months ago. Before that he had been production chief of RKO, for which his last picture was Sweepings (see below). MGM had already appointed another associate producer to fill the Thalberg gap: Walter Wanger, one-time Eastern production chief for Paramount...