Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since we have had ever-sharp poneils of red barn paint, our co-eds need only rompers and a sense of humor (nearly impossible for a co-ed) to clown. The Clara Bow month on our buxom cornfed lassies is just another Cumberland gap in disguise, and the termination of Grate Garbo lip in a dimple is the ending of an opera in "Pop Goes the Weasel." But most mouths are nothing more than Halloween scares--impossibilities after the age of 12 years...
Tall Dictator Josef Stalin recently sent his smallish, smart handyman Andrey Andreevich Andreev to plug and patch the biggest 1931 gap in Russia's Five Year Plan?the failure of Russian railways to haul their planned quotas (TIME, Jan. 4). Last week the new Commissar for Transport showed himself a chip off Stalin's block, plugged and patched ruthlessly right and left...
Play writing develops and stimulates creative ability, a phase which universities, Harvard in particular, are inclined to overlook. Formerly this aspect was treated by Professor George Pierce Baker and the 47 Workshop, and it is the gap left by his exodus that the Cambridge School of the Drama attempted to fill...
...Senate dawdled through its second week without electing New Hampshire's Moses or anyone else President pro termpore. As a stop-gap it took up a bill by Connecticut's Walcott to "insure adequate supplies of wild life, plant and animal, including forests, fish and game for the people of the U. S.," passing it as its first concrete achievement this session. At the request of California's Johnson it asked the State Department to disgorge all diplomatic data on the Manchurian situation and then unanimously called for another investigation of food prices. In an off moment...
...futile merely to deplore the passing of an institution. The Society for Contemporary Art was inaugurated in 1929 to fill a definite gap in the cultural education of Harvard, if not for the whole of greater Boston. Its avowed purpose is to show examples of modern art whose merits are still frankly debateable, objects which could not otherwise be seen nearer than New York. In several of its exhibitions, notably the present one, it has offered students a chance for comparison between contemporary works and recognized masterpieces which have characteristics in common. In another exhibition, the development of modern trends...