Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile immobilizing troops of the Maginot Line proper by holding attacks, the Germans kept some 30 divisions poised on the Swiss border ready to strike into France through the Burgundy Gap. South of Switzerland Benito Mussolini's Army was a final threat...
...suddenly, charging up on the inside, a horse slipped between Big Bim and the rail-into the gap made by Roman's dropping back. It was Milky Way Farm's Gallahadion, with Carroll Bierman up, whom few had noticed inching his way along the rail. With powerful strides, Gallahadion pulled farther & farther away, reached the wire a length and a half ahead of Big Bim, who was desperately struggling to keep Arnold Hanger's Dit from second place...
Geological evidence indicates that a Folsom campsite in Colorado may be as much as 25,000 years old. After Folsom Man there is a long gap to the remains of Siberian immigrants, perhaps 4,000 or 5,000 years old, found by Hrdlicka in Alaska. Then come the "Basket-Makers" who lived in the southwestern U. S. about 15 centuries B. C. and who preceded the Indians whom white invaders found...
...course announcement as Biology 4. Like prosperity, Biology 4 remained just around the corner for three long years of tantalizing billing; then retired with a unique record of never having held a class, Meanwhile, sole entry in the bio-chemistry maw has been a half-hearted, half-course stop-gap called Chemistry 15. Next year, even it is to join the ghosts of limbo, and an absolutely bare cupboard faces the hungry bio-chem. concentrator seeking a dish to correlate his unbalanced diet of biology and chemistry...
Instructors and students alike are unanimous in their desire for prompt action. The only satisfactory solution is a full course with laboratory work to orient bio-chemistry students and bridge the gap between their biology and chemistry courses. Upon the new committee's shoulders rests the responsibility of reversing a story of futility and making Fair Harvard a little more fair to a large group of her undergraduates...