Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hope that bigotry and suspicion will not again raise their ugly heads when the two nations which have so much in common may again seek to remove some of the artificial barriers between them. Canada, indeed, may well be some day the bridge that will close the gap between the English-speaking peoples and lead to their reunion. Clarence K. Streit may well take heart in his efforts toward "Union...
...team against the "B" for the first time this fall in a scrimmage highlighted by the switching of running guard Dick Pfister to right tackle. Tackle continues to be the number one problem child for the Crimson eleven, and Pfister may be able to help plug the gap...
...local audience had grown rather too used to the idea of TVA to thrill to it again. It cheered, but the effect was not what he achieved later that day. The eleven-car Presidential special took him and his party to Newfound Gap to dedicate the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, with a speech on a sterner topic. Fascism...
Died. Sir Joseph John ("J. J.") Thomson, 83, Master of Trinity College (Cambridge), Nobel Prizewinning (1906) physicist and author; in Cambridge, England. Small, easygoing Sir Joseph helped bridge the gap between the old & new physics by establishing the electron theory. Before his discoveries, atoms were considered indivisible; Thomson and colleagues figured out that each atom consists of a positively-charged nucleus surrounded by negatively-charged electrons...
...Midlands industries dwell in & along the Pennine Range, which are old Paleozoic uplands winding north & south, cut in two by a gap between Manchester and Leeds. Through this gap a canal was dug in the early 19th Century to connect the Mersey River with Aire River and the Humber Estuary which flows past Hull. In deep pockets on both flanks of the Pennines lie coal and iron (the min ing regions are shown on the map by tipples) near which the great industrial centres grew - Leeds, Sheffield, Nottingham, Derby, Birmingham, Manchester. Around these cities lies "black country," shrouded in smoke...