Word: opened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ashamed I ever went there. Years ago I swore I'd never go to that damned town again. . . . I play my game in the open...
...hall where all can gloat over the shame of the Groton mule. Just as Eton has its "fives" (a handball game played between the buttresses and against the walls of Eton chapel), so St. Mark's has its "cloister ball." Each evening after supper students swarm to the open cloister which bounds the fourth side of St. Mark's brick-and-timber quadrangle. A tennis ball is thrown across one of the iron tie-rods in the cloister roof, the object being to strike the succeeding tie-rod, catch the ball on the rebound. Historic are St. Marksmen...
...newest play austerity has given way to ribaldry, sex is uncomplicated by religion. Manhattan dramacritics hailed it as bald, unblushing. Some of them inclined to consider it dull. This judgment, if you are not lulled to sleep by a series of marches and countermarches in boudoir land, is open to dispute. For despite its tail coats, pajamas and cocktails, the play is a pungent pastry out of the same sort of oven as produced the Restoration comedies...
...these men, Avery, Easland, Hathaway, Parker, Pollard, and Umphrey are regular pilots, qualified to fly by the United States Department of Commerce. The Flying Club will hold another competition ourly in the spring. Like the competition just concluded, it will be open to al members of the University...
...classification runs through seventeen major classes, but is left open at both ends--an admission of the probable extension of knowledge in both directions. The significance of the classification is said to lie in the skeleton which is afforded all science to bring some measure of order out of the world's present chaotic knowledge of the systems of various kinds. All systems find a place in this synthesis--atoms, comets, and galaxies; man, radiation, and the space-time complex. When looked at in this objective way, human beings, and all associated terrestrial organisms, appear only parenthetically...