Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into three or four armed camps. Many friendly nations, with whom the U.S. has a strong working alliance in the U.N., would jump for a neutral corner. Said U.N. Delegate Warren Austin: "The only possible bridge between the East & West would collapse; and yet, the problem of bridging the gap between the East & West is precisely the crucial problem of our time...
Arcaro let Coaltown get a seven-length lead before he moved into second position. Looking back over his shoulder, Arcaro saw that the rest of the field was "too drunk" to threaten. He clucked to Citation and the gap began to close. The two Calumet horses entered the stretch noses apart, Coaltown on the rail and Citation taking a path ten feet out. Arcaro did not hit Citation with the whip until he was in front and then only because he "just wanted to keep him busy. He likes to loaf once he gets by horses." Arcaro steered Citation under...
Bolles put all four of his heavy eights and the first Freshman boat through a time-trial Wednesday, and although he did not consider the results sensational, the four-length gap between the Varsity and Jayvee shells looked imposing enough. The third boat trailed the Jayvees closely and were in turn hotly pursued by the Freshmen, who left open water between them and the fourth Varsity boat...
Single veterans reported a median monthly expense of $106.13, while married ones with no children said they spent $176.43 monthly. The newly-increased subsistence allowances ($75 for single veterans and $105 for married) "does not fully close the wide gap between actual average expenses and subsistence allowances," the report says...
Milhaud's "Saudades do Brazil" filled the gap between the two chief pieces on the program as enjoyable and amusing selections. They were followed by the longest work of the concert, Brahms' "Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel." To this listener the sum of the component parts presents a rather uneven collection of interesting and dull music, chief objection to which lies in the fact that the peaks and lows arrive with such regularity that one finds himself awaiting what Pope called "The sure return of still expected rhymes." Fortunately, there is a Fugue of romantic exuberance...