Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...harrier teams hold an overall advantage of 34 victories and 10 losses in Harvard-Yale competition, a dangerous trend has come to the fore in the last few seasons. It won't endanger the Crimson's lead, in the immediate future, anyway, but Yale seems to be narrowing the gap and Jaakko regretfully reports that this year the Eli's have a fair chance of winning the intercollegiate championship. Since good cross-country teams usually lead to good track teams and poor cross-country teams don't such a situation doesn't bode well for the spring either...
Filling the Gap...
...official $2.80 rate in New York's "free market." (The notes could not be used in commercial transactions, were chiefly useful to tourists who could take ?5 into Britain.) The notes, which had been selling at $2.90 before devaluation, were down to $2.60 to $2.70. However, the price gap was now so small that bankers thought Britain could clean up the supply of notes, if it wished, by removing the bars on taking them into Britain...
...keeping men of ability like Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin within the working class. Latter-day Bevins would not be forced to work as dockers or pop vendors. With government scholarships, bright boys would end up as smooth-tongued Oxford dons like Board of Trade President Harold Wilson. The gap between Labor Party men in the government and the men in the unions was growing...
...measures could be taken to save Britain from economic disaster (see INTERNATIONAL). To much of the U.S., sunny and prosperous in the late summer, the British crisis had an unreal look to it. Many a citizen could only take it on faith that behind the talk of the dollar gap, Britain's inadequate production and devaluation of the pound lay a dire threat to the stability of the Western World. In Washington, where men faced one another across the conference tables, the crisis was closely documented in bushels of unhappy statistics...