Word: opening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nerves strung fiddle-tight, emotions running skin-deep, the U. S. watched its 76th Congress open a Great Debate last week. A thousand curious citizens pulled wires to wangle passes to cram into the Senate's gallery of 450 seats. Eighty-three Senators out of 96-a portentous proportion-answered the roll call...
...Crimson booters open their season tomorrow afternoon against a tough Williams eleven, and Coach Jack Carr has spent the past week giving the finishing touches to his team whose inexperience showed up so glaringly last Saturday in the practice game...
...wind up at right halfback in the berth vacated by All American Bob MacLeod. Krieger is fast, shifty, and a skilled pigakinalinger. He can, if necessary, handle the punting assignment. "Cowboy" Bu Hayden, Jack Orr and Jim Banman are competing for the fourth backfield position. It's a wide open fight with Hayden holding a slight advantage since his pass-catching ability fits in most closely with the scher... of things at Hanover this year...
...Accordingly the Administration is not open to the charge of having proceeded hastily or ruthlessly; nor did it apply the new scheme of tenure mechanically," the memorandum states...
Communist circles claim that they can not come out in the open with their activities because they expect the United States to be at war shortly, and they would then be persecuted if their identity were known. They also charge that the University discriminates against members of the Young Communist League