Word: opener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the last place Tiger Quintet completely upset the pregame dope by trouncing the apparently over confident league leading Dartmouth Indians Monday, the basketball title race was once more thrown open. Both Harvard and Pennsylvania are mathematically conceded a chance of ticing the Big Green for the lead, while the Crimson by winning all its remaining encounters can pass the Indians and grab off the title...
...department decided to use Fritz Morstein Marx's "Government in the Third Reich." Of this they were able to obtain just four copies. When it is taken into consideration that there are approximately 500 in the course, and only 78 hours during a week in which Boylston is open, it becomes mathematically impossible to believe that more than 185 students will be able to do the required work. Practical proof lies in the fact that while just twenty students were in Boylston last night, not one of the four copies were...
...press deadline approaches, the doors of the teletype rooms get left open, the thumping gets louder. A United Press machine, pounding out scores of the amateur golf championship, suddenly falls silent. Ding ding, ding, ding ding, rings a bell and the machine begins to thump again: BULLETIN PARIS-THE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES TONIGHT UNEXPECTEDLY VOTED NO CONFIDENCE IN THE CABINET OF PREMIER BOUILLABAISSE...
Catholic in her teaching principles, Mile Boulanger has teethed a varied crew of composers: conservatives like Quinto Maganini, Douglas Moore and Virgil Thomson; wide-open Westerners like Oklahoma-born Roy Harris; jazz-bred Manhattanites like Aaron Copland and Marc Blitzstein; rip-roaring cacophonists like Walter Piston. But when the late George Gershwin visited her in Paris, proposed himself as a pupil, it took her only ten minutes to say no. Said Mile Boulanger: "I had nothing to offer him. He was already quite well known when he came to my house, and I suggested that he was doing all right...
Berlin's Tempelhofer Feld, a thousand-acre open space, long the Fatherland's proudest parade ground, was made over into Europe's crack airport five years after the War. Fifteen minutes' taxi ride away is the heart of the German capital, swank hotels like the Kaiserhof, Adlon, Esplanade. Though still one of the most modern airports in the world Tempel-hofer's buildings last week were ready for destruction to make way for an even more colossal port. It is calculated to serve the biggest commercial planes of the century ahead, and to function...