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...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...
...first six months of 1953, Western Europe's industrial production had reached an alltime high: 7% above 1952, a whopping 40% above 1938. Europe's gold and dollar reserves stand at better than $10 billion (v. $7 billion in 1948), its trade gap with the U.S. and Canada declined from $1,713,000,000 in the first five months of 1952 to a manageable $597 million in the same period this year. The ministers got more good news in their conference. Items...
...afford to find their problems solely on the intriguing plane of personal relationships. This is the focus of Love Is a Bridge, showing the barriers of pride, frustration, and selfishness which isolate one person from another. Separating each individual, Mr. Flood seems to say, there is a natural gap which only the warmth and understanding of love can bridge. Spanning twenty-five years, the novel finds Henry Cobb at Harvard in 1927 and follows him through the wrecks of two marriages. The first, to Susan, collapses because their love is not mature enough to bridge two islands of pride...
This total equals the amount of need, before any loan is made and before any form time employment is awarded. The committee then decides how much of the gap will be filled by scholarship funds...