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Word: opener (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issue whereby he might recoup lost prestige. He raised the eternal French-Canadian bugaboo of conscription for a British-Canadian war, and decreed an election. It was an important contest, for if Maurice Duplessis won, it would mean that a huge French island in Canada was in open opposition to the Federal policy, and Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's Government might fall. But things went badly for pink-cheeked, Hitler-mustached, Bon Vivant M. Duplessis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Duplessis Out | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...brush points in that direction. At 31, he has won two Guggenheim fellowships and eight art prizes. Thanks to the latest, a $200 honorable mention at the Carnegie International (TIME, Oct. 30), he went by day coach to Manhattan last week, saw a one-man show of his open at the Associated American Artists' Galleries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Optimistic Realist | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...rifle club, headed by Walter L. Hyde '41, will continue to hold open house in the basement of Memorial Hall this week. Over 100 men signified their interest in the sport by participating in the shooting there last week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Committee Acts Today on Athletic Recommendations | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...been confirmed by naval or other authorities. White House Press Secretary Stephen Early released a communication from Germany which called on all friends of Germany which called on all friends of Germany in the U.S. to help fight repeal of the arms embargo. The President has chosen to open the ports of the U.S to armed merchantmen of belligerent powers, while closing them to submarines. He has also given way drastically to the shipping lobby by leaving Spain and Portugal open to our ships. Finally, the Administration refused to pass the Tobey Amendment, which would have caused adoption of "cash...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TIME FOR A RE-DEAL | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...gone so far. Even the Ten Commandments included only "obedience." What means the revolutionists will use to impose "chastity" is beyond the wildest imagination. Already they seem to have made one step towards the opposite direction by pointing the Czarist "drang nach" Wellesley, Smith and Vassar. The Muscovite Maidens--open to all girls of White Russian blood or sentiments--will for the moment continue their activities of "making and wrapping bandages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BLUE VODKA ON THE WALL | 11/3/1939 | See Source »

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