Word: openings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan last week twenty antivivisection, anti-inoculation, animal humane societies of the United States and Canada gathered at the semi-annual meeting of the International Conference for the Investigation of Vivisection to flay the medical profession. They inveighed against the practice of cutting open innocent little animals or filling them with nasty diseases. Said Charles Edward Russell, famed radical author and winner of the 1928 Pulitzer prize for Biography: "I suggest that we broadcast to the public a pamphlet challenging the American Medical Association directly. The doctors won't meet us in a hearing because they're afraid...
Approved the erection in Manhattan of the projected Broadway Methodist Temple, after much argument and the anxious comment, provided by the opposition, that the Temple would open "a very, very wide door...
...sheet of newspaper flutters in the gutter of an empty street. A cat creeps across the sidewalk. On another street a man tacks up a sign. Four revelers waddle home, one of them dragging a balloon. Shutters go up. A factory gate rolls open. The tempo increases. People thicken the streets and the subways. It is 8 a. m. A hand seizes an electric switch. Machinery gleams in a maddening rhythm. White-hot balls become bottles. Typewriter keys dance. Faster and faster until noon. A lull. Sausages and beer. Chicken and silver platters. An elephant yawns and wags his tail...
...week this little man, Jose Jurado, had kept his .obliging manners, his smiles, efficiency, and unconcern. He had led the qualifiers for the British Open Golf Championship. Now, playing his last round, he was doing his best to upset the English notion that no member of a Latin race could stand the strain of tournament golf...
...books, certainly, Dr. Brown's does little to satisfy the questioning spirit which above all must be met with its own weapons. Whether Mr. Spaulding has succeeded in doing this is an open question, but at least he has descended from the pulpit and entered into the midst of the congregation...