Word: opener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wilson, research assistant of the University of Chicago's famed Arthur Holly Compton, worked for three months in the shaft with a cosmic ray recorder of his own design, containing four ionization tubes. These were arranged in line so as to exclude cosmic rays shooting down the open shaft, to catch only rays boring vertically through the rock. From the surface to 1,600 feet Mr. Wilson took measurements at 39 stations. The intensity diminished steadily as he descended, but at the bottom he was still getting a few rays of extraordinary penetrating power, at the rate of about...
Hence when Monimia returned with her players in the winter of 1736, Charles Town had the brand new Dock Street Theatre waiting for her, first theatre building in America. The play she chose to open it was George Farquhar's bawdy Recruiting Officer, which fine-limbed ladies of the frank 18th Century theatre liked to play because it clothed them part of the time in the tight breeches of English soldiery...
...size 23. the assortment included a black felt brimmed model with green, lavender and red bows, a toque with iridescent feathers and odd-angled quills, a visor brimmed type with veil in front, a bumper roller with wraith of veil in the rear. Mrs. Garner refused to open the boxes, refused to accept the hats...
Meanwhile at the cemetery, where a hard rain was falling, laborers abandoned a plan to stage a sit-down and took themselves off. Soon another body arrived. It lay in an open grave all night. Next day came six more. As more funeral processions, unaware of the strike, continued to arrive at the cemetery. New York City's Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia saw an emergency...
...become a success; the third tells of the U. S. journey. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas brought old literary-artistic quarrels to a head. Miss Stein began reading the manuscript to Artist Pablo Picasso and his wife: "I was reading he was listening and his eyes were wide open and then suddenly his wife Olga Picasso got up and said she would not listen she would go away she said. What's the matter, we said, I do not know that woman she said and left. Pablo said go on reading. I said no you must go after...