Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since 1934, Cunard White Star has disposed of nine major vessels-Mduretania, Majestic, Olympic, Homeric, Doric, Oceanic, Calgaric, Adriatic, Albertic. It has built the Queen Mary and started slightly larger Hull 552. Still left is a gap in its fleet which Cunard last week announced will be filled with eight 30,000-to-40,000-ton motorships of an improved Georgic type, each to be given names ending in the traditional Cunard ia. The White Star ic suffix is being abandoned...
...palliative for the hardship worked by the present system. The cure is course revision. The tutorial system is now lugging the heavyload placed in its lap by poorly organized courses. Instead of taking up problems arising from course lectures and readings, the tutorial system is trying to plug the gap between courses. This is an inefficient and half-baked way of giving another course. Much more benefit can be derived from a tutorial system making an intensive study of problems springing from courses, than from a system which spreads a pitifully thin veneer of knowledge over the whole History fabric...
...influence of the frontier in American history has been sufficiently overworked to be regarded as no longer novel; Mr. Seldes, in a charmingly written, yet somewhat prolix production naively presents an emasculated re-examination as the key to America's way out. Again we stand at the Cumberland Gap to hear the pounding of the buffalo feet, the tread of the Indian, the tone of the oxcart--and in many more pages than Turner's memorable paragraph. Because of the frontier America need become neither Fascist nor Communist. Just what it will become, Seldes veils in a murky optimism...
...seven-year U. S. occupation, Rebel Somoza last June virtually seized control of Nicaragua (TIME, June 8 et seq.). He forced Liberal President Juan Bautista Sacasa to quit before his term had expired, made it necessary for Congress to appoint Dr. Carlos Brenes Jarquin Provisional President to fill the gap...
Dean Mimno's office is in Cruft; the Engineering School secretaries are in Pierce; dictation must be given and taken. Engineering brains were put to work to bridge the gap, and the Zeppelin was created to bear dictaphone rolls from dean to secretary and transcribed correspondence from secretary to dean...