Word: opener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only at the last moment that the French Government, after debating all week what to do and after failing to persuade Generalissimo Franco to agree either to setting up a neutral zone or to declaring a general amnesty, decided to open the French border not only to the fleeing army but to as many civilians as cared to enter. Probably what helped France make up her mind was the thought of what might have happened had the frontier been kept sealed. The Loyalist Army might well have decided to make a suicidal last stand on the border. Both a massacre...
Lanigan denied that the Student Union was in any way a Communist organization, emphasizing its democratic nature. He stated the objectives of the Union and cited the support which the University gives to its activity here. Two Boston College students heckled the speakers at the open meeting demanding to know the origins of the Union, declaring they felt it was their "moral duty" to know...
Professor James Delargy of University College, Dublin, will lecture on Irish folklore in the New Lecture Hall next Wednesday night, instead of in the Institute of Geographical Exploration as was previously announced. The lecture is scheduled for 8 o'clock and will be open to the public...
...Teachers' Union in its tactful statement last night did not express an opinion on "matters of departmental competence"-presumably to decide on the qualifications of its staff members. But it did bring into the open an issue which has plagued the University in the past and which will continue to as long as its theory and practice of academic tenure remains unchanged. It is the spectacle of the great, impersonal university playing with the lives of its hirelings, using them as long as they are useful to it and discarding them unsystematically. Up to a point this rigorous competition...
...enthusiasts might see Harvard defeat Dartmouth on the slopes this winter, now that Dartmouth's Dick Durrances and Eddie Wellses have become alumni. Four Crimson skiers placed high Saturday in the Eastern Amateur Ski Association open downhill meet at Stowe, Vermont, competing against the country's experts. Captain Bill Hinton finished twelfth in a field of thirty-two, with Gale Burton finishing sixteenth, John Pierpont, seventeenth, and Jesse Thomas, twenty-fifty. Of the quartet, only Pierpont is a senior, while Hinton and Burton are Sophomores. Thomas is a freshman...