Word: gap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard's second goal came with 97 seconds to play. Dryden was out of the crease in a scramble and Cornell's Tufford had already made one save when Turco, with help from McManama, closed the final gap...
Yale then closed the gap by capturing the next three positions in closely-contested matches. Michel Scheinmann, John Whitbeck, and Fritz Hobbs all fell in five games...
...these days of the "credibility gap" and "overkill" in Vietnam, a sort of ancient parallel in the battle of Marathon, as so brilliantly described by Professor N.G.L. Hammond of Bristol University on Tuesday, may be instructive. The sources are exclusively Greek, and they report the battle as an over-whelming victory of a small force over an enormous enemy army. The sympathies of all readers are well conditioned. The meticulous and detailed analysis of Professor Hammond uncovered a flaw in the onesided Classical presentation of the battle. The Ionian Greeks in the army of the Persians secretly informed their cousins...
...ends, the aerospace industries will certainly try to get their appropriations back. The recent widely-publicized scare stories about the U.S.S.R.'s efforts to close its "missile gap" with the U.S. seem to be part of such a campaign. However, if these industries have lived with lower (but still high) profits during the Vietnam war, they could be forced to live with them even after the war is over. So the war could conceivably reduce the aerospace's share of the federal budget for good...
...Pauling that temporarily threw him off course, enabling Watson and Crick to win the DNA race; the distraction of wine and popsies at Cambridge University, where much of the great work was carried out. Burdened by the complex details of DNA research, Double Helix does not quite close the gap between C. P. Snow's "two cultures," but certainly narrows...