Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Poet Stephen Spender: "The gap across Europe does not separate victors and vanquished, but the devastated poor countries and those which are still intact and rich. Let's prevent one side living in self-pity and resentment, and the other in self-righteousness and fear of contamination...
...will keep him on the bench for at least half the season; Harlow lost his other would-be starter, Howie Houston, for least two weeks with another leg injury. In an effort to boister the tackle positions, Harlow has moved in a variety of other linemen to fill the gap, with former guards Eddle Davis and Ned Dewey looming as starters. Both Davis and Dewey are experienced linemen, with the former a regular on the '44 eleven and Dewey a 1945 player. Behind these 200-plus-pounders Harlow has another ex-quard, Mal Allen, and heavyweight Ken Middendorf...
...Gap Fillers. Weather-house sales are sure to drop this year. But bright, mild-mannered Bob Kahn, 38, has some items to fill the gap. One of them is a gas-station model from which an attendant emerges in a uniform or in a raincoat, depending on the weather; another is a combination clock-thermometer-barometer...
Married students, comprising only nine percent of undergraduates but considerably greater portions of graduate students, continue to face an unsettled housing situation with a considerable backing of unfilled applications, and the prospect of a house-less gap between the opening of the fall term and the completion of the Devens project in early October...
...individual nations hesitantly promised help to bridge the tragic gap. Brazil announced that she would admit 100,000 (preferably skilled industrial workers) in a year. However, Brazil was ready to receive only 1,000 families by Oct. 1. Other Latin American countries were "exploring the possibility" of taking in refugees. In the U. S., richest of all the D.P.s' dreamlands, no serious effort to revise the narrow quota immigration system was being made...