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Word: opener (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...keep on calling such operations "frontier clashes" was fantastic. But neither Russia nor Japan wants open war. Both prefer to fight a little at a time as convenient. Chinese, whose air force today consists largely of Soviet-built planes, credited Russia with creating a diversion which last week led the worried Japanese to cease bombing Canton, gave that gory, undefended metropolis four days of respite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Terrible Fight | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

Around the first tee of the rolling Keller Park golf course last week crowded 5,000 Twin City fans. Of all the country's top-ranking professionals driving off in the $7,500 St. Paul Open, the golfer they were most anxious to see was the fabulous Walter Hagen, now 45, who had just returned to U. S. tournament play after a two-year globe-trotting exhibition tour. "The Haig" to prince and plumber alike, most colorful player the game ever developed, winner of 35 major championships (including two U. S. Opens, four British Opens and five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Haig & Haig | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

...morning last week, a tall, austere man sat at his desk in the open city room of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, scribbling with a thick blue pencil. Few minutes later his memo was posted on the bulletin board. It read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Sealed Envelope | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

...Action. Mr. Barkley, while traveling 1,500 miles a week and speaking five or six times a day, mostly keeps his coat on, preserves his dignity, discusses his record (99% perfect) as a Roosevelt supporter, reiterates Franklin Roosevelt's appeal for his return. His meetings open with "America." His introducers refer to him as "the next President of the United States." From the platform, Almighty God is frequently invoked in his behalf. A typical Barkley exhortation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENTUCKY: The Roosevelt Handicap | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

...Provincetown, Mass., where some 50 professional artists and hundreds of students regularly spend their summers, two juries, from the same association, one conservative and one modernist, selected no pieces from the work of members. But last week 35 artists decided that was not enough, planned to hold open house all summer, turned their homes into galleries for summer visitors and possible buyers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Summer Shows | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

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