Word: openings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Round about and beneath her surged merry, excited Milanese. They filled the whole square except for a lane guarded by picked, stalwart troops of the Alpine mountaineering service. In a moment His Majesty, beloved King Vittorio Emanuele III, would ride down the human lane and on to open Milan's great, annual Sample Fair. Why didn't the King come? He was already overdue. The child on the lamp post tossed her head impatiently and made a face at some other children who were lamp posting nearby...
Chinese who cannot but deplore the present political disintegration of their country, wished last week that great Yuan Shih-kai might rise as a towering cohesive force from his open tomb in Honan. So great and national was his prestige that during the last year of his life and of his Presidency (1916) a movement to proclaim him Emperor and seat him on the Dragon Throne failed by the narrowest of margins. When the Chinese Revolution broke, in 1911, Yuan Shih-kai, then Viceroy of Hunan and Hupeh, declared with prophetic vision: "Chaos will ensue. . . . For several decades there will...
...flashy skaters like Frank Boucher, Ranger centre, or Bill Cook and his brother Bun, the wings, could stand being bumped around by checks like Siebert, Button, Smith. The Rangers were playing all their games away from home. In the second game their goalie's eye was cut open and Lester Patrick, manager and coach, a star defense man 20 years ago, put on the pads and got in goal himself. After this game (TIME, April 16), the president of the National Hockey league appointed a new goalie for the Rangers-Joe Miller, late of the Americans...
...clock tomorrow night the CRIMSON will issue a call for candidates for the business department. This will be the last CRIMSON competition of the year and is open only to Freshmen...
...compared, rather than the papers of ten men who may not necessarily represent the best the college has to offer. The chance to turn scholastic attainment to account for the glory of the college would thus be determined by the examinations themselves; the possibility of winning recognition would be open to all students taking the examinations; and the features of an intercollegiate sport contest would be practically eliminated. And not of least importance each college would be satisfied that it was being judged on what would unquestionably be its students' best efforts...