Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week the gap between living and nonliving things was so narrow as to be almost nonexistent. A century ago the demarcation between organic and inorganic matter was sharp. It grew hazy when chemists began to make com pounds artificially. They found that hydrocyanic acid, simply standing in water, gives rise to urea and other substances found in living tissues. Now that thousands of organic compounds have been synthesized, it is chemical custom to call "organic" any compound, however formed, that contains carbon, since carbon is a notable component of plants and animals. Lately Rockefeller Institute researchers have isolated...
...primordial organisms, but to their natural production from wholly inanimate substances. It has been learned that all that is necessary for the spontaneous generation of certain sugars is sunlight, colored surfaces, water, carbon dioxide, moderate temperatures. Such factors were undoubtedly present on earth a billion years ago. The gap between such naturally generated substances and the half-alive tobacco mosaic virus may be almost no gap at all. Other highlights of the St. Louis meeting...
...points in two minutes as snippy Coach Ward ("Piggy") Lambert smiled on the bench, confident that his scouting in Manhattan the week before had uncovered N. Y. U.'s weaknesses. His smile was premature. Gradually gaining momentum, N. Y. U. bunched up on their opponents, slowly whittled the gap between them. At halftime, they were six points behind. Then they opened up. Netting the ball from every angle on the floor, they tied the count, pushed ahead. With four minutes left, they had a margin of 11 points. Purdue woke up. Led by Captain Bob Kessler, crack left-handed...
...cars, and Railway Age estimated a 1935 production of only 100 locomotives. To this traders retorted that rail equipment stocks were still underpriced, that even a small equipment expenditure by a railroad would be big income for an equipment company. No other group of securities offered such an extraordinary gap between depression lows and prosperity highs...
With the tape a bare hundred yards away, however, Playfair surged by Woodland in a magnificent sprint. Increasing the gap with every stride, Harvard's captain broke the tape twenty-five yards ahead of his opponent, furnishing an almost precise duplicate of his victory over Bonthron in 1933, when Playfair overtook Princeton's ace runner some eighty yards from the tape, to lead the Mikkolamen to victory...