Word: opener
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Karl S. Lashley, Research Professor of Neuropsychology, will speak to an open meeting of the Lowell House Scientific Society tonight in the Common Room on "The Functional Significance of Cerebral Localization...
There are, of course, other channels than the fellowships through which some of the Nieman money might flow. Prizes could be awarded to the outstanding journalists of each year; undergraduates courses might be organized in newspaper history and technique; a research department might be instituted. Such suggestion are open to argument and consideration, but for the present the advantages of the fellowship plan are undeniable...
...fellowships will be open to those who have been in journalistic work for at least three years. It is hoped that a considerable number of able men of experience from all over the country will be applicants. The holder of such a fellowship would, of course, be invited to Cambridge only if he had a clear idea of the line of study he wished to pursue. Thus, a man interested in becoming an expert writer on finance, for example, might choose a year's work in economics; another with the prospect of a career as a foreign correspondent might wish...
...that time Samuel Davis Wilson was an investigator for a zealous religious group engaged in prosecuting concessionaires who stayed open Sundays at Philadelphia's Sesquicentennial Exposition. Getting into politics in the city comptroller's office, Sam Wilson soon rocketed to fame by attacking "the utility-banking-political combine." In 1935 he was elected mayor on a platform whose three major planks were 5? carfare, tax reduction and 50? gas, Philadelphia carfare is still 7?, but Mayor Wilson did cut taxes and last year, at a banquet celebrating the gasworks centennial, he fired the opening gun of a drive...
...fifth campaign (October 1933 to October 1934) Chiang Kai-shek sealed south China's Soviets with a ring of forts, mobilized a million men. Defeated in open battle, the Communists decided on a fantastic escape. Leaving a skeleton force at the front, they moved south & west on the night of Oct. 16, 1934, before Chiang Kai-shek's army got wind of their retreat. With them went thousands of peasants, a mule caravan carrying dismantled machinery, Singer sewing-machines, printing equipment. In forced marches, they crossed twelve provinces, over the 16,000-ft. passes of the Tibet mountains...