Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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McGill declared that finished proofs are ready to be returned to the printer and that copies should be available by May 1. His publication will include a detailed coverage of student activities and athletics to fill in the gap caused by a temporary lapse of the senior album, and original sketches by Nicholas N. Solovioff...
...Communism inside out, for he has fought it and crushed it within Transport House. Last week, when Soviet President Kalinin denounced Europe's "reactionary Socialists" and their false devotion to democracy, Bevin knew that Kalinin put his name at the top of the list. Bevin understands that the gap between Russia and the West is really unbridgeable so long as Russia defines democracy in terms of a single party, a single list of candidates, a secret police and a controlled press. He knows that the West's brand of freedom is no longer welcome in a great many...
...succeeded beautifully in concealing the name of the commander who asked for reinforcements to quell the 2,000 Japs at Attu when he had only a division of 15,000 men and the support of a fleet." It never told who, if anybody, was to blame for the Kasserine Gap and Ardennes defeats, the torpedoing of the Saratoga and the loss of the Wasp...
Although cotton is still the world's most important fiber, American cotton "no longer can take its markets for granted." Reason: in the last ten years, the price of U.S. cotton has been artificially boosted by the cotton bloc from 12? a pound to 23?. The gap between the U.S. price and the world price has widened until now American cotton costs 6? more a pound. Result: foreign consumption of U.S. cotton has been cut in half. Moreover, rayon has moved into what's left of the market...
This book, the first important edition of Wordsworth since Matthew Arnold selected and edited the best of Wordsworth more than half a century ago, fills an important gap...