Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Board of Overseers to consider the "Relation of the College and the Student," marks a new trend in collegiate policy a positive recognition of what undergraduate point of view can contribute to scholastic administration. The cooperation will prove beneficial to all interests, and we are glad that the unavoidable gulf between the younger and the older generation has been so wisely bridged. It is to be hoped that this cognizance of the undergraduate attitude will be fostered at Harvard and throughout the country. It is only during the past two or three generations that the maxim, "Children should be seen...
Harvard has no room for men who are attracted by high pay. Increase of salary would be a further bridging of the narrow gulf that separates us from commercial institutions. Scholars are not out for money, they want to work in sympathetic company, amid congenial surroundings. They run no race with bankers, corporation lawyers, or fashionable practitioners. They are directed toward a different goal. They ask for bread, not for stones...
...wondered but a moment, and then I knew, I knew the same uproar was sounding in every ear from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from Niagara to the Gulf, and that it proclaimed the first rounded twelve-month of our Nation's share in the war for civilization. I knew it was our notice to the world that all we had done in this thrice-busiest year of our Nation's life is but a beginning of what we shall do. It was Paul Jones's cry from the deck of the Bonhomme Richard, magnified by steam...
...neutral. Germany is picking a quarrel with Denmark for interning the prize crew of a captured Spanish steamship stranded off the Danish coast. Germany seizes the Aland Islands, which formerly belonged to Sweden and which command the northern entrance to the port of Stockholm and the exit from the Gulf of Bothnia, through which the largest part of Sweden's trade finds its outlet. Germany is reaching out almost to the Pole, demanding of Russia, the abandonment of claims to Spitzbergen and seeking a conference through which it can juggle Norway out of her colonization prospects with a view...
...Bagdad was the absolute lack of an effective system of rail communication. It was this condition which prevented the relief of Kut during the winter of 1916, the river transportation proving inadequate. Under the direction of the new commander a complete railroad system was built from the Persian Gulf to Amara, and in addition the British Army was reorganized on a basis superior to that of any other overseas force...