Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...replacement of the carburetor by a fuel-injection system by at least one automaker. Long used in aircraft and racing cars, fuel injection has been thought too tricky and expensive for stock cars. But the rapidly rising cost of the new four-barrel carburetors has closed the cost gap while several practical stock-car systems have been developed. In present carburetors, gasoline is mixed with air, then sucked into the cylinders through the manifold. With a fuel-injection system, small pumps attached to each cylinder spray the fuel-air mixture under pressure directly into the firing chamber. With better engine...
...project, coordinated by World University Service, a non-profit service organization, will attempt to bridge the gap between Indian university students and the villages in nearby areas...
...While he is sympathetic, the role demands an unwavering conception of duty which permits little new interpretation. Theodore Bikel, as Robert de Beauricourt, is properly rowdy but perhaps a victim of the incongruity of French and American vulgarity. His almost Prussian manner may be an attempt to breach the gap, but it is an inadequate one. If Christopher Plummber had rendered Warwick American-style, the result would have been ludicrous. Happily, he has adopted all the confidence of the cynical Englishman looking down upon fifteenth century France. He is also an amusing, if unnecessary, intermediary between play and audience; through...
...virtually no depth. Jack Vodrey, Tiger captain, is the only harrier who can even attempt to challenge the lead. Vodrey, however, is a real threat. He won the Big Three cross country championship last year, and is also Heptagonals outdoor two mile champ. But there is a huge gap between him and his teammates, bound to be filled this afternoon by Yale and Crimson runners...
Filling what the committee called "The gap between those who are interested in debating and those who can compete for the varsity Debate Council," the League will be under the supervision of Ernest R. May, instructor in History, and the new adviser to the Debate Council...