Word: opener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...library is to serve the University to the best of its capacity, it must, therefore, more nearly cater to the requirements of the College members, who, today, are sadly neglected. There are two solutions to more evenly balance the conflicting interests. One is to keep the library open longer hours. The other is to separately house a collection of books solely for undergraduates. These possibilities will be discussed in later editorials...
...which the German High Seas Fleet, surrendered to the Allies on Nov. 22, 1918 in the Firth of Forth, was interned until June 21, 1919. That day its British guardians put to sea for maneuvers and Rear Admiral Ludwig von Reuter issued the order: "Paragraph 11, acknowledge" (i. e., open all seacocks, scuttle the Fleet). Fifty of the 74 German vessels, led by their flagship, Friedrich der Grosse, gurgled to the bottom before the British could intervene. Last week old Admiral Reuter (retired) telegraphed Hero Prien: "I am happy that I have been allowed to live to experience the revenge...
...Open Wound." Only the colors of the flags of Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland are different, the design is the same-a cross on a plain field*-and wealthy Stockholm with her many lagoons, beauteous "Venice of the North," was a brilliant forest of cross-flags last week as the President of Finland alighted at Bromma Airport with brisk, energetic Finnish Foreign Minister Eljas Erkko...
...Stockholm City Councilman Frederick Storm to tell Finland's President what all Swedes were thinking: "If anything wrong should happen to one Scandinavian country it would be of the utmost importance to all of them. Any wound made on any nation in our group would always be an open wound...
When the war began, Britain's Ministry of Information kept Britain practically without information for three weeks. Then public opinion revolted, British newspapers raged at the Government for keeping silent, Lords and Commons made open fun of the censors. So Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain quickly set up a new Department of Press Censorship and News Distribution, which occupies the same building that housed the Ministry, and is mostly staffed by the same censors. Here are the first pictures to show them at their work, no longer bungling quite so badly as they...