Word: gap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Youth Commission. It has spent its four years mainly in gathering facts and issuing reports such as its famed Youth Tell Their Story (TIME, June 6) on Youth's education, jobs, play, health, morals, mental attitude. Disheartened by such facts as an average two-year gap between school and job, the Commission has lately found fresh food for worry: increasing conflict between oldsters and youngsters, which is likely to divert to old age pensions public funds needed for Youth's education...
...work of each student "tutor" has far greater implications than mere teaching of English or Economics. His objective is the attempt to clear up a national problem--the widening gap between high school and employment. Vividly apparent from the swelling ranks of the C. C. C., the N. Y. A., and the W. P. A., the struggle of youth to find an opening in private industry is becoming more acute each year. Claiming that public education has failed to prepare its graduates for their place in life, the Gulick report to the New York Board of Regents last fall favored...
Also important for those not admitted to Houses is the fact that associate members of the Houses will be expected to use the first vacancy that occurs, if it is at all possible for them to do so. That is to say that associate membership is only a stop-gap until full membership can be granted. This is to be understood by all who are admitted to associate membership. And for the benefit of those refused admission nothing less can be done than to notify them of that fact in June rather than wait until September when many rooming--houses...
...attempting to express himself in such a fashion that his idea will be made clear to the onlooker, throws his whole subjective self into his creation with the result that not a great deal is left to the imagination of the spectator. Most great artists have left a slight gap between themselves and those who are receiving their paintings, thereby allowing for the expansion of their themes in relation to the intelligence of the people who see the pictures. Less external flamboyance and more inward depth will make contemporary German art more representative of the race and less like...
Married. Helen Charis Wilson, 24, daughter of Novelist Harry Leon Wilson (Ruggles of Red Gap); and her employer, famed U. S. Photographer Edward Weston, 54; at Elk, Calif. Said Father Wilson, 72: "I'm sure the difference in their ages should make no difference in their happiness...