Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These are the dog days of the crew season, when exam period and a long gap between races combine to give Newell boathouse an unwonted air of manorial gloom. At 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, usually a time of crowded confusion, Coach Bolles could be found sitting alone in his upstairs office, poring over the records of his former crews...
...successful, working system has been set up: there have been about 2500 Purchase Cards sold in Boston: the nucleus of stores participating has grown from 26 to 42 since March. In short, the main goal of the NSA Purchase Card Committee has been well fulfilled: we have bridged the gap between an idea on paper and an actual system in operation. The job, of course, is not perfect in every aspect, but it provides a firm foundation on which next year's committees can build a bigger and better system, and of course increase the sale of cards...
...Britain," mused one imaginative Board of Trade official last week, "were to grasp the principle of selling the Americans something they haven't got and won't bother to make under their mass-production methods, there's market enough to bridge the dollar gap, and more...
Rowing at a 36 stroke, the Crimson closed the gap to less than a length, but a late counter-sprint by Princeton regained the margin. At the finish Yale was four lengths back...
...cracks at Harvard already, and failed to come alarmingly close either time, although they did cut down the gap by several lengths in last week's race. As for Columbia, it has only managed to register two lasts in as many starts this year, falling victim to Princeton and Yale once and Penn twice...