Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gulf Between Generations...
Well, that is the gulf between the generations and it is up to us to be very attentive to it. Now, freshmen and sophomores stop me on the street and visit me in my rooms to ask me about these very writers. And that shows us that these writers are fulfilling a profound need for those who live in stormy weather. And I find three tacit assumptions within their work that are reflected in the best young 20th century minds, assumptions that he could not have grasped...
...scientist, of all persons, should be able to stop where knowledge stops, namely with Nature, and be bold enough to confess and to live with the great gulf of the unknown which lies beyond...
...town will rise 17 miles north of the sulphur field and workers will be brought down to the mines by power launches. With a new mine abuilding in Bay Ste. Elaine, La., Freeport will boost its yearly output well over 2,000,000 tons a year (Texas Gulf Sulphur leads the world with 3,200,000 tons). With the demand for newsprint, fertilizer, rayon and other sulphur-users soaring year by year, Williams and Whitney see no limits to their future markets...
...After years of work on a "pronunciation map" of the U.S., Professor C. K. Thomas of Cornell University announced that he had found at least one continental divide-a line running from Vermont down the Alleghenies, along the Ohio River, then cutting across Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas to the Gulf of Mexico. If a man comes from east of the line, he will say "fahrest"; from the west, "fawrest." The same goes for "ahrange" and "awrange," "Flahrida" and "Flawrida," "hahrrible" and "hawrrible...