Word: gapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...peculiar position, being situated in an area which takes its hockey very seriously, its basketball with a yawn and condescending "what's that?" One local morning paper, in fact, has never mentioned basketball in its columns--for reasons of its own, to be sure, but still leaving an emgarrassing gap in its columns that must be otherwise filled...
...budget will equip the proposed regional government-studies project. Here the University has fallen into a secondary position while Columbia and Cornell have added this vital training to their curricula. Men who attempt to draw any sort of preparation for the Foreign Service or other overseas opportunities find this gap in their undergraduate studies a definite obstacle...
Both as teachers and scholars, Barber and Schorer stood in the best tradition of the English Department. But because, for one reason and another, both of them refused to disgorge the prescribed number of published pages by the prescribed date, they have gone elsewhere, leaving an unfilled gap in the Department behind them. The enthusiastic reception of Schorer's book on William Blake, published subsequent to his departure from Harvard, is evidence of the fallaciousness of the University's insistence on published research as the dominant criterion of its Faculty appointments...
...billions. This top-heavy unbalance has reduced gold and dollar reserves of foreign nations from $17 billion in 1944 to $6.4 as of last June. Warned Electric Bond & Share's board chairman, Curtis E. Calder in Knox-like tones: unless the U.S. drastically increases its overall imports, the "gap will be filled either by denuding our customers of their limited resources, or by providing them, through loans or gifts, with additional purchasing power...
...plans now on the drawing board are good, but being premised on the presence of top-notch teaching talent, they should be scaled down some-what to include men of admittedly stop-gap timber. At all events, the Russian area program should get under way even while the University searches for the scarce teachers. Otherwise, for lack of material in Cambridge, the Harvard graduate must continue to turn to other institutions...