Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...return of Charles H. Taylor, Lea Professor of Mediaeval History, will alleviate the shortages of specialists on the middle ages but will not all the gap caused by the departure of Professor MclLwain, whose courses on English Constitutionalism will be temporarily discontinued...
...credit side of the wartime ledger goes the Wake, started better than a year ago to fill the gap left by the defunct Advocate. Although there has been student representation in its pages, the Wake has been chiefly devoted to special issues and the works of established writers. The Wake plans to continue its occasional appearances even if the Advocate does revive, and an issue on English poetess Edith Sitwell is contemplated for next Fall...
Judas Had the Place to Himself. Schoenberner also found two other important examples of the gap between appearance and reality. One was the result of a visit to Oberammergau, where Bavarian peasants performed their world-famed Passion Play. Schoenberner discovered that the peasant who played the role of Christ was thereby enabled to charge tourists twice as much rent for his rooms as any of his followers (Judas, it was whispered, couldn't find a roomer at any price; and St. John, who was the handsomest of the Apostles, finally eloped to the U.S. with a rich American widow...
...Meaning of Friendship. Turkey and Iran were still the biggest gap in the Soviet Union's two-continent super-security system. By exerting pressure for concessions, Russia hoped to get the same kind of "friendly" governments in Ankara and Teheran as she had in Sofia and half a dozen other capitals-governments that would see Russian reason...
Harlow expects to announce the successor to Lyal Clark's line coaching spot within the next few days, filling the gap left by Clark's departure for a position with the University of Pittsburgh...