Word: opening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doors of Manhattan's soot-flecked Grand Central Palace this week open on the 1939 version of the greatest annual U. S. fashion parade, The National Automobile Show...
...Young Tom Cullen was the intern assigned to handle the great Dr. Kelly's instruments. As Dr. Kelly grasped his scalpels Dr. Cullen turned round to thread a needle. When he looked back in a few seconds he was astonished to find the patient's abdomen open. Most surgeons at the General took ten minutes for this procedure...
Irwin Edman was 21 when he began teaching philosophy at Columbia University. On the campus one day shortly afterwards he met his old professor, Felix Adler. "What are you doing now?" inquired the professor. "Teaching," said Edman. "Teaching what?" "Philosophy," said Edman. The old man patted the open-faced, blond youth on the back. "How cute!" he said...
...Russian intellectuals and professionals; he writes exciting, if confused, narrative; even achieves some of the massive tediouness of the Russian novelists. But where the Russians succeeded best-in portraying the Russian peasantry who shaped the character of the Revolution-Author Hutchinson fails: the brilliant Russian surface of Testament cracks open to reveal dim, confused sketches of the real thing, a novel that at the core is English after...
...same time there will be an editorial competition open to Sophomores only...