Word: gapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lineup as released by Lamar marks changes over early practice indications. Bob Tolf, who came out for tackle, was switched to end in practices and will start the game at right end. Sam Butler, who will start in the middle of the line, was brought up to fill the gap left by the injury of center O'Brien, who is temporarily sidelined...
...convincing detail: because of poor crops abroad, because of a sharp drop in U.S. corn production, Europe now faced a food shortage of 4.5 million tons in grain alone. If scarcity of U.S. corn meant that farmers would turn to wheat to feed their hogs and cattle, the gap would increase by another two million tons. The committee counted on other exporting nations to boost their quotas, on hungry Europeans to tighten up on their own food-collection systems...
When the rocks brought back by the Atlantis are properly studied, they may prove that: 1) the Ridge was once part of the original continental mass, before the continents parted company; or 2) the underwater range is a young mountain system, slowly rising in the widening gap between the continents...
Back of this quartet comes a big time-gap before the next Varsity runner is reached. Coach Mikkola expressed concern over this situation, particularly since the number two finisher yesterday, tall Paul Friedrich, is a transfer student from Williams and won't be able to compete for the Crimson this fall under the eligibility ruling. Mikkola thought the showing of the Freshmen was "very encouraging...
...What the Germans could not do, SHAEF did. Third Army was sat down. Patton was ordered not to seize Falaise. . . . The real reason was Montgomery's insistence that he close the gap. He demanded-and got his way-that Patton be halted from springing the trap he had forged. . . . During that time, the bulk of the trapped German armor escaped, to fight again and kill United States and British troops on other battlefields...