Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...going through one of the hardest fall sessions in years; there are new fraternity regulations, an enlarged and more potent Green Key; and above all there are the changes introduced by the administration: abolition of all entrance requirements and a consequent broadening of the selective system to fill the gap; appointment of a dean of the faculty who will have direct control and supervision over the curriculum, the better to perform progressive alterations...
From the ministerial bench of Spain's Cortes, chunky, gap-toothed Premier Manuel Azana has for two years led his Socialist Coalition Government in a rapid renovation of Spain's semifeudal society, steeped in piety, vised by the landowners. He was determined that no one should stop him until he had accomplished two things: 1) the substitution of non-sectarian schools for the Catholic Church schools that have taught Spaniards all they know for half a millennium; 2) the dispossession of the great grandee landowners. His great weapon is the Socialist labor unions of 1,000,000 well...
...finally decided that while he might have been guilty of thinking about becoming a professional, Vines had never definitely promised to do so, hence remained amateur. Still possessed of the best first serve and the hardest forehand drive in tennis, Vines last week showed signs of having closed the gap between his 1933 form and the game that made him unbeatable in 1932. Said he: "I think my chances of winning the American singles championship are as good as those of any American. . . . I'm all right physically, so I guess it's a question of mental adjustment...
Like a pouting lip, the promontory of Northeast Foreland juts from Greenland's poleward face into the Arctic Ocean. Across a 300-mi. gap of ice-choked water lies the intricately indented coast of Svalbard (Spitsbergen). Down between them, on maps, runs a frizzy line enclosing a white blob which cartographers have labeled "unexplored." Reports received in Copenhagen last week indicated the frizzy line would have to be changed. Just inside it, Dr. Lauge Koch, Danish scientist-explorer, had found a chain of mountainous islands...
Aristocratic Dr. Cespedes will serve only as a stop-gap President. The regular Cuban Presidential election is scheduled for next year. His name is popular in Cuba because his father, also Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, headed a brief revolutionary regime in 1868 (30 years before the U. S. helped Cuba to win independence from Spain) and has been called "the Cuban George Washington." His family were forced to flee Cuba after the revolt and Dr. Cespedes was born in New York just 62 years ago last week. Popular in Washington from 1914 to 1922 as Minister of Cuba, he knew...