Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that provides better ignition, quicker starts for cold motors. The plug has electrodes coated with polonium, a radioactive element discovered by the late great Marie Curie (and named for her native Poland). The polonium shoots a steady stream of subatomic particles which ionize (electrify) the air in the spark gap, make it a better conductor when the spark jumps...
...probably be missing from the lineup for the Tufts encounter because of a Geology field trip, Lee Hartstone will take over his right field berth. Burgy Ayres, who is starting at the third base position, will move up from fifth to fourth in the batting order to fill the gap caused by Lovett's absence...
...rising costs at home, high wartime delivery costs by sea. Nor was it certain that Britons themselves wanted a cheap pound. When the decline began, the London Economist suggested extending exchange control over more British products, "strangling" the free pound market "to its smallest possible proportions." Last week the gap between the pound's two prices had had little real effect on U. S. trade except to intrigue traders. More than intrigued were U. S. customs officials. Required by law to consider both prices (since both are now quoted by the Federal Reserve), they could not decide which...
...which had been drawn by Max Barsis, author of one of our books, Bottoms Up: An Unreliable Handbook for Skiers. . . . Dubious suggestions from each one of us (witness skitoes, skiskits, skiddings, shinnies) were mentioned and howled down, when one of us suggested skidaddles, and another of us bridged the gap to skidoodles...
Although the Chancellor has raised taxes (TIME, Oct. 9), Professor Robbins thinks these cannot yield much over ?1,250 millions. Thus a gap of ?1,500 millions yawns. Into it Sir John is pouring the ?300 millions he raised at long term last week. Into it the Treasury continues to pour about one million pounds realized every day since break of war by the sale of Savings Certificates and short-term Defense Bonds. But everyone in the City realized last week that before long something more would have to be done about this estimated ?1,500 million deficit. In answer...