Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...zone of Germany, where I have been for a year. It is difficult to be an American here today, working with persons of English and continental nationality who are so tired, after over six years of conditions which the American public, and particularly political leaders, can never understand. The gulf between our standard of living and that of these other nations is too great for world security or understanding...
...wheelbarrow, pitting their sweat-shiny muscles against the river. Near Kaifeng dikes were rising to replace those destroyed in 1938 by the Chinese when they scorched the earth in the path of the Jap invaders. Before the dikes were opened the river had flowed northeastward into the Pohai Gulf. Afterward, it turned southeastward and ran into the Yellow Sea. If the river could be diverted to its former bed, 1,500,000 acres of arable land would grow the grain and cotton that China needs...
Never was a college year more neatly split in two than was Harvard's in 1945-46, an academic period that displayed to nobody's surprise the enormous gulf between the University in war and the University in Peace...
...India's Back. They left it to the British Raj to build a "sturdy central pier" (as the London Times called the May 16 White Paper) "requiring only a comparatively short span from either side" to bridge the gulf between Moslem and Hindu. Pakistan was rejected. Instead, the plan set up a union of all India with a central government to control defense, foreign affairs and communications; it could raise revenues for those functions. To please the Moslems the White Paper offered the possibility of strong regional governments which could plan their own economic and social development. Two would...
...Texas Co., Forest Oil Corp., Niagara Share Corp., United Gas Corp., La Gloria Corp., Gulf States Oil Co., Stone & Webster, Inc., Chicago Corp...