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...want to know why a Christian of one faith feels like a stranger in the church of another. If there is but one God, why must we worship Him in different ways?" A trade unionist from Essen asked whether "the churches can do anything to help bridge the gap between employer and employee." A shutter designer from the Rolleiflex factory in Braunschweig asked: "Why must so many community pastors be stuffy and dull? I hope to find here a spark of Christianity that I can carry home with...
...turn, Citation was cutting down the gap with an easy, amphibious stride when one horse drifted wide, carrying Citation out with him. For a while it looked like a repetition of the race two years ago at Havre de Grace, when an unknown named Saggy handed Citation one of his two defeats in 30 starts. But one lick of Jockey Steve Brooks's whip shot Citation into the lead. He coasted down the stretch like a champion, ears pricked forward, and won by a length and a half. His time for the six furlongs: a creditable...
...needed. But by last week all that had changed. In the last three months of 1949, coffee prices almost doubled. U.S. consumption had soared above prewar levels, and Latin America's output lagged behind. Cowgill thinks that the work he has been doing will help close the gap...
...before the Indians began to hit. Once they did, they moved to within seven points of the leaders midway through the second half but Harvard held a 13-point advantage with five minutes to go and, although they cut this down to ten, the Dartmouths could not close the gap...
...success in stabilizing its consumption and production of the world's goods. The balance between U.S. exports and imports in a world still struggling to get back on its productive feet was as dangerously out of whack as ever. The hope that EGA would somehow close the huge gap between imports and exports had gone glimmering in 1949. At year's end, the U.S. had sold an estimated $12.5 billion abroad and had imported only about $6.5 billion; the gap was almost as big as it had been at ECA's start. Even the desperate remedy...