Word: openings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...high type." Candidate Smith was praised on the West coast by Novelist Gertrude Atherton, great grandniece of Benjamin Franklin, who, addressing her fellow Californians before the crucial May Day primary, said: "Smith is the only man who has any human appeal. . . . He is a man. He is open-minded and openhanded. He stirs the affections. He is honest and direct. He is no humbug professing all things and practicing nothing. Vote the humbugs down. Women want real men to represent them in public office...
...This treaty shall, when it has come into effect . . . remain open as long as may be necessary for adherence by all the other powers of the world...
...open staid, conservative news organs and find the nose of the King-Emperor repeatedly referred to as a "snoot" has given Londoners a delicious, titillating thrill of sacrilege these many months. The sacrilege was last week not only permissible but even laudable because the London press was exulting at the slap administered by Chicago voters, to their blatantly anti-British Mayor, William Hale Thompson (see p. 11). Since Mayor Thompson invented and began the game of calling the nose of George V a snoot, the dignified and conservative London Morning Post permitted itself to gloat, last week: "Evidently the self...
...emphasis on sport, which they largely attribute to the stimulus provided by competition and loyalty to alma mater, will now have a chance to see whether this same incentive applied to scholarship will act as an inspiration for better work in the classroom. We are a little skeptical but open-minded...
...examination is open to all resident students of Harvard College who are pursuing a regular course of study and have not completed four years of work in a college or institution of equivalent grade. C. E. Wyzanski '27 won the contest in both 1926 and 1927, and 1928 he was awarded the intercollegiate prize in the latter year he was barred from intercollegiate competition because of his previous victory...