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Word: opener (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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There is in Japan a considerable body of opinion which sees in Siberia a most desirable field for expansion. The country is rich in natural resources, and the population is small, in many ways it is the best opportunity now open for the extension of Japanese possessions. Japanese statesmen have on occasion given expression to this ambition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Another Side. | 11/29/1919 | See Source »

Addresses will also be made by both candidates for Mayor of Cambridge at the coming election next Tuesday, Mayor Quinn and Alexander H. Bill, followed by a question period on local civic and political issues. This meeting will be open to the general public, including ladies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Need Teachers at Prospect Union | 11/29/1919 | See Source »

...Joseph Clark Hoppin '93 will give an illustrated lecture on "The Making of an Attic Vase" before the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of America on Monday afternoon, December 1, at 4 o'clock, in the Lecture Hall of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The lecture is open to the public without charge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOPPIN DISCUSSES ATTIC VASES | 11/29/1919 | See Source »

...topic which he will discuss is as follows: "The Situation in China Today--Modern Social, Political and Religious Conditions." Bishop Roots is one of the few men in this country qualified to talk on this subject, and as the question is of current interest the lectures will be open to the public...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Talk on Conditions in Modern China | 11/29/1919 | See Source »

...trouble with this," explained the great political economist, "was that it wasn't tough enough for the readers' taste. So a novel developed that was staged in the open, where the heroine was always Miss Middleton--always the Miss." Mr. Leacock went on to describe the hair-breadth escape from the Apaches of the typical couple alone far out in the wilderness; how the hero lowers the girl 200 feet down a precipice with his lariat, and they ride off together over the prairie to the little railway station, where they are to separate forever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WORST IS YET TO COME, SAYS LEACOCK | 11/29/1919 | See Source »

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