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Word: gaps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nations. It is therefore with genuine delight and excitement that all of them have looked forward for months to the dedication this week of a modern motor highway reaching nearly a quarter of the 3,200 miles from the U. S. to Panama and filling in one more great gap in the long-awaited Inter-American Highway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Inter-American | 7/6/1936 | See Source »

...scored a telling point against the New Deal by making Secretary Wallace admit that several big sugar producers had collected around $1,000,000 each in bounties. Accordingly, the President now took the opportunity to write Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney of Wyoming, sponsor of a stop-gap sugar control bill to succeed the late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Roosevelt Week: Jun. 15, 1936 | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

Died. Jobyna Howland, 56, six-foot-tall, self-styled original Gibson Girl, celebrated character actress and musicomedienne (The Gold Diggers, Kid Boots, Ruggles of Red Gap); of heart disease; in Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 15, 1936 | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

Promising to repeat its victory of last year, Lowell House now leads it nearest rival for the House All-Round Championship Trophy by 55 points. Although Winthrop as runner-up can lessen the gap with victories in their three remaining contests by about 21 points, there is no hope of dislodging the Bellboys from their top position...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 5/19/1936 | See Source »

...mirror above the windshield. Now all Chevrolet owners know what that meant. It was just like waving a red flag before a bull. The driver's hot sporting blood surged up his spine; he awakened from his spell of dull lethargy and gave the accelerator a little push. "The gap between them widened slightly and then filled up again. The Ford again showed signs of passing him, but the game Chevrolet driver depressed his accelerator a bit more and drew away. And so the informal race continued, the Chevrolet playing with the Ford in much the same way that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 4/28/1936 | See Source »

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