Word: gap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back on the winning track again when a strong B. U. team invades the Indoor Athletic Building tonight. The Terriers lost to Harvard last year in one of the closest games of the year, as the Feslermen came from behind in the closing minutes to close up a gap in the score...
...automobile collision at Azusa, Calif., Thomas Leo McCarey, cinema director (The Awful Truth, Ruggles of Red Gap), and Gene Fowler (born Eugene Devlan), journalist, author (The Great Mouthpiece, Timber Line, Illusion in Java), were burned by gasoline flames. Director McCarey had a fractured skull, Writer Fowler injuries to back and chest. First to recover, Fowler telephoned his agent, offered him 10% of his cuts...
...this part of the country, when someone jumps into a gap in the conversation with this remark: "I heard a most extraordinary story the other day"-anyone may interrupt with "Stop right there! I know what you are going to tell us. A friend of yours, or someone's sister, or your aunt's cousin, picked up in her car a woman who was walking wearily along the street. She got into the back seat and after a silence announced 'Someone will die in this car today.' After the driver had recovered a little, she went...
Although only a transitional sport to bridge the gap between the fall House athletic program recently completed and the winter sports after Christmas recess, indoor baseball will draw full teams from all the Houses, Samborski predicts...
...greater flexibility in dealing with the tenure problem, argues the proposition that the new style Associate Professorships should be utilized to meet the educational needs which have already become apparent in the brief life of the new dispensation. In its simplest form the proposal is that the threatened gap in undergraduate instruction be filled where necessary and within existing budgetary limitations by the creation of associate professors on permanent tenure for whom there is no vacancy calculably in sight in the full-professorial ranks. The contention that Harvard education is threatened with a serious impairment unless this policy is adopted...