Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finish line so near together, that it was almost a blanket finish. Bill Trainor was awarded a second, and Kearie Barry won the event. In the mile, which was won by Don Jordan of Princeton, in the good time of 4:26.7, captain Bob Houghton closed up a gap of 15 to 20 yards in the last lap, to come within inches of nipping Jordan at the tape...
...faces many a production hurdle; most big rubber companies are old hands at synthetics, but not in any such volume as that. If Akron's current rate of consumption continues, the end of imports and the beginning of self-sufficiency may be separated by a serious gap...
...gap between the U.S. intelligentsia and U.S. life was just too wide...
...Swinburne on Emerson: "A gap-toothed and hoary-headed ape, carried at first into notice on the shoulder of Carlyle, who now in his dotage spits and chatters from a dirtier perch of his own . . . fouling...
...went to war with the rest of the Axis, no one could tell how great the gap would be. But by week's end the British Government had already made moves to fill it, had tacked an additional $2,000,000,000 on its war budget, had announced that building and engineering industries would go on a seven-day, 50-hour week...