Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the first quarter ended, the crimson was on the short end of an 13 score. During the second quarter, sever, the team slowly closed the gap and toward the end of the period held short one point lead, 26-25. Shortly after the Huskies caught fire. Employing its breakaway plays they scored five wishes in a row and when the half-time buzzer sounded they held a 35-26 lead. After the half, Northeastern steadily Granded its lead by firing shorts into the Basket from all over the court. The crimson, meanwhile, unable to crack the Northeastern defense, resorted...
...kindly eye. Leaving the A.F.L. convention in Cincinnati, Labor Secretary Maurice Tobin reminded newsmen that wages of some 16 million workers were now trailing 9% behind the Bureau of Labor Statistics' figures on the cost of living. Labor, he implied, could count on his help to close the gap...
Steel for Henry. When Henry Kaiser fell out with Cyrus Eaton, his Kaiser-Frazer Corp. lost its big supplier of steel, Eaton's Portsmouth (Ohio) Steel Corp. To plug the gap, K-F last week paid some $3.6 million for the Phoenixville (Pa.) plant of the Phoenix-Apollo Steel Co., which has a capacity of around 26,000 tons a month of finished and semi-finished steel...
...Fatal Gap. Smith v. Smith became Smith v. the 27th (and, finally, the Army as a whole). Twelve days after Ralph Smith was replaced, two of the 27th's battalion commanders settled down for the night without bothering to cover a 300-yard gap between their flanks. Though forewarned, the ailing regimental commander never bothered to check up on his front lines. Through that gap the Japs rammed their last, desperate banzai charge...
...main effort was to be the construction of a bridge of insight between his time and traditional Western culture. He spanned a small part of that gap when he went to live in London, became a British subject. Before the building began, however, and probably before Eliot had any notion of where he was going, he had to tap, test and question the world around...