Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gap between a intellectual community and Main Street will always exist because people think a university concerns itself with ideas and inquiry instead of day-to-day practicalities. In Harvard's case, this gap has widened into antagonism. This can best be seen spread over the Letters to Editors column in daily papers and in the statements of many elected representatives of the people in the State and National legislatures. If the gap widens in the next few years as it has in the last, it may result in withholding of governmental contracts and use of the University's state...
...dean was sensitive about his age. But his ability greatly impressed senior professors in the school, and they quickly helped him hurdle the gap in his formal education. Now a mellow 37, Keppel is recognized as an authority in his field...
...wanted to leave his Greek converts as free as possible of the old Jewish Law, he says, other leaders at Jerusalem insisted that all new Christian converts be circumcised, or at least adopt Jewish rituals. It was Peter, says Theologian Cullmann, who eased these requirements and bridged the threatening gap between Jewish and Gentile Christians...
...under the Confederates key redoubt, blowing it up and running a ground attack through the breach. The tunnel was dug, 320 kegs of powder were planted, and after a misfiring fuse was relit, the earth flew up, as one soldier wrote, like "a waterspout as seen at sea." A gap 500 yards wide opened in the Confederate line. The attackers rushed forward-only to bog, company after company, in the wide crater. The Confederates began lobbing mortar shells, and within a short time, close to one-third of the attackers were wiped...
...White case revival, Truman, Mitchell and many other Democratic leaders demonstrated that there was still an enormous gap between the parties on the issues involved. If that gap is still present in the fall of 1954, the Reds-in-Government issue will be a factor in the congressional elections. That is the way U.S. politics works. It works both ways. And, on the whole, it works well...