Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crimson forward wall has undergone drastic changes this week. George Minot may be out of commission with a bad knee, leaving an uncertain gap in the first line, as former first-stringer Wally Sears has been skating with the third line since the Dartmouth game, Tom Moseley has also retired from the scene, owing to academic pressure...
...only assured, but aid's arrival is guaranteed by a definite early date (midsummer or early fall), the British Government will have to slash imports. It can no longer afford to shovel in some $200 million a month of dwindling gold and dollar reserves to fill the trade gap...
...shall be almost bound to have to cut raw materials. That will undoubtedly cause inconvenience." This characteristically deadpan remark was British understatement with a vengeance. One of the many things Cripps did not say-though implicit in what he said-is that one ultimate method of closing a trade gap is starving to death...
...House system was supposed to fill this gap and in prewar days it did so to some extent. President Lowell's idea of the intellectual exchange over the dinner table was an admirable ideal but has not worked in practice. I have known students in the Houses who eat together religiously, not because they had the slightest thing in common (which was evidenced by their conversation) but because they happened by mere chance to be thrown together as roommates and, knowing no one else, formed themselves into a little group of fellow sufferers. On rare occasion I have seen these...
...million for stop-gap aid to China, France, Austria, Italy...