Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Significance. These dismissals, to insurgent Republicans and Democrats, seemed to dramatize and personalize their favorite issue of Power, to build it up for presidential 1932. They felt that the oustings were inspired by President Hoover, and served as a large and concrete wedge to widen the gap between the Administration and the Progressives (see col. 3). They recalled that the dismissal of Forester Gifford Pinchot in 1910 which helped split the G. O. P. and defeat William Howard Taft in 1912 was just such an incident at the time...
...actual thruster, explains how a poet may open his casement on perilous seas: "I have taken a footman's modest part in countless hunts, and have also hunted on a bicycle. When one knows, as I did, every inch of the wide countryside, every path, stile, gate and gap, as well as the workings of a fox's mind, one can hunt, even on foot, with great success, on cold-hunting days. . . . After all, poetry is not a written record of what one does. Were it so, Shakespeare would have been hanged for murder and Sophocles for incest...
Apart from its great intrinsic value the Guelph treasure fills a great gap in the history of art as shown in U. S. museums. Wise purchases and liberal gifts have made the U. S. comparatively rich in Egyptian, Classical, Gothic, Renaissance and Modern. Of that whole period from the 4th to the 13th Century referred to by Victorian professors as the dark ages, U. S. collections have scarcely anything but a few fragments of Romanesque sculpture, an occasional porphyry column or bit of mosaic. This period is completely covered by the Welfenschatz. Earliest of the pieces is an 8th Century...
...That a gap has been filled in the program of collegiate football is evident when the number of men who have reported for this team is taken into consideration. In both Harvard and Yale there is an abundance of men who are anxious to play football. Eighty candidates tried for positions on the University squad...
Just what the eventual effects of this policy may be it is difficult to say, but at present it seems to be decidedly a move in the right direction, and ought to be of considerable assistance in bridging the gap which exists between prep-school and university...