Word: opener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Public utilities were an avenue into which private capital could flow, he said. Now that the TVA fight was over, this avenue was open again. Not without sarcasm, but still reassuringly, Harry Hopkins added: "There has been no indication that government wishes to own and operate all the utilities of this country...
Gifted young Indian artists helped arrange the show, painted murals of buffalo hunters, and tribal dances (see cut). In the open court, Navaho rug weavers set up their loom, to be followed by other craftsmen, including a Cherokee with an eight-foot blowpipe who can hit a bull's-eye at 100 paces. Over half the work shown was contemporary. That it was a far cry from the usual stuff sold to tourists was due in many cases to its ritual character, and also to the fact that Indians, sensibly, sell only junk at junk prices...
...Women, belongs to the modern school in art and the old school in boxing. A praiser of the days when fighters like Benny Leonard relied on brains rather than bang, Tony Sisti planned to eke out six cagey rounds last week. Instead, he found his young and hopeful opponent open to certain applications of practical anatomy, dropped him once and knocked him out for good in 70 seconds of the first round...
...railbirds had underestimated a plain brown filly, Congressman Richard Kleberg's Ciencia (Spanish for Science, her dam's name), who was bred on the vast open spaces of his family's famed King Ranch,** Coming into the stretch, Ciencia, who had been trailing like a dogie up to the half-mile pole, suddenly rushed up,*** swept past the leaders, Porter's Mite and Bessie Franzheim's Xalapa Clown. When the dust had settled, 50,000 gasping spectators realized that a filly had won the Santa Anita Derby for the first time...
...difficulty remains. When the seed-filled bolls open, the seeds, having no lint to hold them, fall out and are lost. Texas A. & M.'s next step, therefore, is to keep the bolls from opening by further crossbreeding. Since nonopening types of cotton already exist, the scientists believe they can soon turn the trick. Such a plant should be in great demand among smart cotton planters because: 1) instead of having to be ginned, it could be cheaply threshed and harvested like any small grain; 2) there would be no cotton fibre to swell the two-year glut already...