Word: opener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prying newshawks last week reported that Samuel Silverman, about to open Washington offices, had a police record extending back to 1913, cited twelve arrests for offenses ranging from assault & battery to bootlegging, a 360-day jail term in 1936 for a bond deal...
Powers led Gibbons by a yard for 14 laps, but then the diminutive Bruin pulled his way even, passing Powers and leading him for the next two lengths. The Crimson swimmer made a gallant bid as he went into the last turn, and came into the homestretch wide open cutting down his opponent's lead every second, but Gibbons stood him off until the finish, winning only by a touch...
Mark Van Doren, noted American poet, will give a reading of his own poems, open to the public without change, this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in Emerson D. The reading is sponsored by the Morris Gray Poetry Fund of Harvard...
...winter over the Government-promoted inland waterway from New York City to Miami (1,460 nautical miles). Each year some 2,500 boats from New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland and surrounding States motor down through the network of rivers, streams and canals (there is still 50 miles of open sea). Like touring autoists, waterway tourists use road maps (Government charts), obey traffic signals (buoys). They treat sailing vessels as autoists treat pedestrians, park at anchorages instead of garages. Diehard water-gypsies, 100,000 strong, never get off their boats, live on them all year round...
...winter meet, the All-American Air Maneuvers, at Miami last week. A half-dozen speed events went off like buggy-races. The ships that flew in them were not freakish rocket ships, but ordinary sport and businessmen's airplanes. At the finish at week's end, no open speed records had been broken, but no flier had been killed or maimed, no ship demolished. It was aviation's first big safe and sane get-together...