Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boeing Corporation was one of many companies to realize that the gap between college classrooms and "out in industry was a major drawback in modern technical education. The professors couldn't relate their subjects to practical aspects of engineering, and industry would eventually have had to foot the bill for additional training...
Then, in the third quarter, the visitors closed the gap once again to reach a 43 to 39 count and finally ended the period at 48 to 42. Pivot man Ed Blodnick scored seven of his 12 points in this quarter to lead the varsity rally. Blednick was the third high scorer for the game with 13, while Krinsky landed in second with 14 points, most of them gorgeous set shots from a distance...
...paid him on the first and third Monday of the month, and he kept running out of money before the fortnight was up. Last week he not only failed to get an expected raise; he got no wages at all. His enemy, the calendar, had caused a three-week gap between paydays. He went home broke and disgruntled. There was nothing but macaroni and butter beans for dinner. He choked them down. But he rose during the night with a glitter in his eye, got his wrench, opened four hydrants and let every drop in the town...
...than resort to arrangements. For a year and a half he searched the libraries of Europe, turned up some surprising finds, e.g., harp music by one of Bach's sons, by Beethoven, Handel and Faure, as well as by early Spanish and French composers. That still left one gap: the moderns. To fill it, Zabaleta began badgering living composers to write for the harp. So far, six concertos have been dedicated to him, including compositions by Milhaud and Villa-Lobos...
Married. Army Corporal Edward S. Dickenson. 23, hillbilly captive of the Communists in Korea, first among 23 American P.W.s who, having refused repatriation, changed his mind and came home (TIME, Nov. 2); and Kate Laney, 21, neighbor's daughter; in Big Stone Gap...