Word: opened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plant called Venus' fly trap, a native of North Carolina, was called by the great Charles Darwin "one of the most wonderful in the world." It has a two-lobed leaf which, while waiting for prey, stands open like a gaping clam shell. From the edges of the leaf two rows of slender spikes project inward like teeth. Two or three sensitive hairs serve as a trigger mechanism. When an insect touches these, the lobes snap together, the spikes meshing to prevent escape. Then the leaf, says Miss Prior, "is converted into a virtual stomach and the glands...
Although the science of psychoanalysis was developed long before the War, it was not until the hectic '20s that psychoanalysts began to open their science to large groups instead of restricting their skilful emotional probings to a few isolated individuals. In 1924, a group of socially-minded psychiatrists and psychoanalysts* formed the American Orthopsychiatric** Association, an organization whose aim was practical activity on a large scale. Members included not only psychoanalysts and psychiatrists, but teachers, social workers, and academic psychologists and sociologists as well...
...good reason why politically-wise Harry Hopkins made no specific suggestions in his speech was explained by the Wall Street Journal: "Various New Deal officials and agencies had squared away for an open fight on Mr. Hopkins if he stuck a critical finger publicly into their particular affairs and the Secretary was content ... to deal in generalities . . . and keep specific suggestions in reserve...
...American newspapermen with at least three years' experience are eligible for fellowships, regardless of age or previous education. The entire field of instruction is open to the Nieman Fellows, who carry on a program of lectures, seminars, private reading, and informal discussions, supplemented by formal course study under Archibald Macleish, Curator of the Nieman Collection of Contemporary Journalism...
Instruments with which Harvard's engineering scientists are pushing man's conquest of his physical environment,--among atoms and microorganisms, soils and metals, radio and electricity, in sound, the air, and motion,--will be on display to members of the University and their guests in an open house tomorrow night from 7 to 11 o'clock, sponsored by the Harvard Engineering Society...