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Word: opening (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this is like modern war: undeclared. Minds have split, but the men haven't. John Garner does not want to fight with the President-not if he can help it. For the Party's sake he wants no open rupture. And as an old deerhunter he knows that you don't cut a buck's throat until it quits thrashing. Franklin Roosevelt is still much alive and kicking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE VICE PRESIDENCY: Undeclared War | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...Raymor tonight, Woody Herman and Harry James in a battle of swing at the Roseland tomorrow, and Basie at the Southland . . . Not generally known, but still true is the Anglo-Saxon word for music: "swin(g)" . . . Word slips through from New York that Teddy Wilson's new band will open at the Famous Door late in April; and that Bud Freeman is going to take a mixed band into one of the night spots. A grand idea:--Goodman started the breakdown of the Jim Crow traditions in regard to colored musicians playing with white, and it now looks as though...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swing | 3/17/1939 | See Source »

...program that has been arranged is a varied one. Hindemith's "Martins Lied" will open the concert, to be followed by "Kyrie Eleison" from Bach's Mass in B Minor. The joint singing will be closed with Beethoven's "Eulogy." After this, the Radcliffe Choral Society will end the concert with Allegri's "Miserere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Glee Club to Give Concert With Radcliffe Choralists | 3/16/1939 | See Source »

Fifty men have worked overtime the last two days' clearing the snow from University walks and driveways, officials announced yesterday. The University has given 27 men temporary employment to keep the roads open...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Snow Clearance | 3/15/1939 | See Source »

...gownpeople. True, college faculty members are not guilty of the same outrages students have perpetrated in the past. But the impolitic remarks and methods that professors are prone to use cause the same type of resentment. Town concludes that gown does not take its problems seriously enough; students make open sport of local government and the faculty is too inept in politics to prove it does not wish to experiment with the municipality as a guinea...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SIGNAL FIRE | 3/14/1939 | See Source »

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