Word: opener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mankind belongs to the order of Primates. There is no more reason for our being ashamed of our Northarctus ancestors (early Primates) than for the horse to be ashamed of Eohippus (early ancestral horse). In science we have no fear or shame, we merely survey facts open-mindedly. He shows slide of Northarctus, a fur covered monstrosity...
...very much for anyone not planning to explore some place. It is built around Professor Rice, who has had wide experience but is usually in New York and does not have much time to spend on the course. 35a, on Cartoraphy, has the widest appeal, but it is only open to concentrators in Geography and certain other scientific fields. It is well taught by Raisz...
Doing a smart 38 m.p.h. with wide open throttle the craft was just clearing the trees on the edge of the field, when a disagreeable down draft went to work. The ship poised for a moment, then pancaked into a large tree some 15 or 20 feet off the ground...
...Liberal Evangelical conference in Manhattan last week, Dr. Howard Chandler Robbins, well-beloved onetime Dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, went into the history of open Communion. Pointing out that the controversial rubric dates back to 1281, when there were no Reformed churches, Dr. Robbins rested the Liberal Evangelical case upon the fact that canon law makes no reference to open Communion, that the rubric was intended to apply only to members of the church...
Reaffirming its confidence in the Walsh-Sweezy Committee and condemning Conant for too hasty a final statement, members of the Faculty today addressed an open letter to the President's Committee...