Word: gap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...once took mastership of the situation. Shouldering his way through the pack of nervous passengers to the front car, he told the motorman to stop beside a local at the Bleecker Street station. At his command the guards slid open the side doors. Using seats to bridge the gap between the tracks, the subway's president supervised the herding of passengers through the local train safely to the station platform. Afterwards President Hedley explained: "My actions were unnecessary. My men are well-trained and know their business." A pneumatic driller had pierced an I. R. T. power conduit near...
...bill enacted fortnight ago failed to balance the Budget even roughly, by about $350,000,000. To fill up this gap Congress was expected to effect special economies of about $250,000,000 and reduce appropriations by $100,000,000. Last month the House of Representatives was presented with a $263,000,000 economy bill. When the House finished with it, the measure represented an estimated saving of somewhere around $40,000,000. Last week when its turn came to save in a big way, the Senate also faltered, lost its nerve...
...that a report on the subject of House Rents has been drawn up by the Student Council, and placed in the hands of the Corporation. There is no doubt that it will give confirmation, if confirmation be needed, to the feeling that rents are excessive, and reveal an unbridgable gap between the present scale of prices and the post-depression pocketbook. No practicable juggling of suites, and no House Aid, will by themselves be adequate to the situation. A general scaling-down of prices, insofar as that is consonant with the financial obligations of the University itself, is clearly necessary...
Cause of the general rejoicing and the Marken gloom was the same: Holland remade her geography last week with the closing of the last gap in an 18-mi. dike between Wieringen and Friesland, thus putting an end to the famed Zuyder Zee. Some 500,000 acres of rich farmland will be reclaimed from the sea bottom when pumping operations are completed. The rest will make an inland lake (one-third the size of the original Zuyder Zee), to be known from now on as Ijsselmeer, in which the former fishing fleets of Volendam and Marken will be marooned...
...this weakness in the Socialist program which is likely in the long run to hurt it more than the transient prejudice which the average man now feels toward its very name. Until the Socialists have bridged this gap between theory and practice and given assurance that control of business by experts can be brought about within the fabric of present system, they are not likely to make great progress against the planless but firmly entrenched older parties...