Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Montevideo, enthusiastic native thousands pressed through a police cordon to get a good look at Ajax's two smashed gun turrets, to mend which she must go home to Britain. They goggled at the gap where a German shell tore through the cabin of Commodore (now Rear Admiral and Sir) Henry Harwood, smashed his bathroom, wiped out his wardrobe...
...scientists found some differences in the Sinanthropus and Pithecanthropus skull shapes, but also some exact resemblances, even in minor structural details. Peking Man's molar and premolar teeth are more primitive, but Java Man has a wide gap between his canines and incisors-an extremely apelike feature never before found in a human or nearly human creature. On the whole, the resemblances between Sinanthropus and Pithecanthropus led their analysts to regard them as "related to each other in the same way as two different races of present mankind, which may also display certain variations in the degree of their...
...Juror No. 6 was brunette, gap-toothed Mrs. Angeline Muscarella, 29, who had three women deputies watching over her. Deputy Sheriff Alfred Warner also had Mrs. Muscarella in hand. A Buffalo policeman later testified: "He [Warner] said that he had had improper relations with Mrs. Muscarella during the time he was guarding the jury...