Word: opener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard men are made in the Freshman year; boys of the year before are then regarded as men and started along a definite path of training from which there can be no turning back. Both the administration and goal of this training should be continually open to student consideration, for he is to be either the beneficiary or the loser...
Cornell's early jump into the lead has all the pickers open-mouthed. A year ago the Big Red ended the season in the cellar, but in its first two encounters this year defeated Yale, the defending champions by a 6-3 margin and then white-washed the second place Crimson nine...
...building has all been under direct orders of the Shah. He approved plans, altered details. Little did it seem to matter to the King of Kings that an architect omitted plumbing detail when building a hotel, that Teheran's water supply still came through the streets in half-open, easily contaminated cement drains, that Teheran's old electric power plant had a limited capacity. When His Imperial Majesty drove at night through a street not sufficiently lighted for his tastes, he ordered more powerful bulbs installed. Upshot of this was that the rest of Teheran was plunged into...
Egypt's 18-year-old King Farouk last week drove through Cairo streets, sardine-packed with cheering, cotton-robed fellaheen to open the first Parliament elected since his Coronation. Sixteen-year-old Queen Farida, who has been breaking precedents right & left since her betrothal, last week led the way in breaking another. With Queen Mother Nazli she watched the opening from the royal loge, the first time female members of the royal family have attended the traditional male function...
...Morgan's underwriting offshoot since the New Deal divorced deposit banking and underwriting in 1933. Last summer in an exuberant moment Robert Young, who likes to think of himself as a financial liberal, told Senator Wheeler's Senate Committee investigating railroad finance that he planned to open all C. & O. financing and banking to competitive bidding such as the New Deal recommends. He maintains that Morgan's has been after his hide ever since and that this explains Guaranty's actions. He also claims that Guaranty is yielding to Messrs. Brown & Smith since General Motors also...