Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boys Club outfit came back strong in the final period, closing the gap between the two teams to only three points. The Crimson, however, get held of the ball and was able to freeze it for the remainder of the game...
Conspicuous as a missing front tooth is the gap in U.S. biography caused by the lack of a definitive life of Thomas Jefferson.* This book represents an attempt to span the gap with a kind of footbridge woven from the cables of Jefferson's own thought. Says the author, University of Virginia's young, Maine-born historian Bernard Mayo: "This [is the] story of Thomas Jefferson, told in his own words." Those who begin by testing Author Mayo's footbridge warily, wishing for a more orthodox structure, will soon come to respect his biographical engineering...
...comes Henry Morgenthau, to heap additional taxes on top of taxes that have been rising steadily, to close an inflationary gap that indecision has already let almost out of hand...
...difficulties in working out such a plan, and nobody knows how many U.S. citizens would gamble hard cash now for an unseen item with an unspecified delivery date. But Henderson hopes it would wangle enough cash from U.S. citizens in 1943 to cut the estimated $18 billion inflationary gap by at least one-third...
...Sweezy has filled that gap, and filled it surprisingly well. He does not attempt to cover the whole complex area of Marxist thought, but he hits the high spots, illuminating them brilliantly. The important elements, from economic determinism through surplus value to the class interpretation of recent history, are stated, interpreted, and criticized. No such complete survey of a system of economic doctrines has appeared in recent years...