Word: openings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sudden break (TIME, Feb. 27). Equally long will market historians discuss the reason for last week's phenomenal spurt. The principal reason was the unexpected action of the officers and directors of the General Motors Corporation in purchasing 200,000 shares of their own stock in the open market for their own account...
...greatest variety of beasts are on the open plains where the enemy-beasts cannot sneak up so easily unnoticed. From a blind on the edge of a water hole, the Johnsons watched, photographed. Herds of oryx, the double-horned unicorn, wilde-beeste, kongari, eland, impalla, buffalo, zebra, came in turns to drink. Also the rare okapi. They respect and stand aside for the conceited and preening ostrich of the deadly kick. Zebra snap and fight among themselves continuously. Giraffes, "the creatures God forgot," wander about nervously nibbling at the trees too timid even to drink. Defenseless against his fatal leap...
...December, 1928, competition for the Rhodes Scholarships is open this year to competitors in 32 states, including Massachusetts. Candidates may apply either in the state in which they reside or in any state in which they have received at least two years of their college education before applying. Application blanks, containing information may be obtained now at 5 University Hall...
...clock this morning the two-day polling will begin in the University in an effort to determine the trend of undergraduate opinion regarding the leading possibilities for the Presidential nominations. At that hour the ballot-boxes will open in the Crimson Building, in Langdell Hall, and in the Baker Library...
Additional polling-places will open at 12 o'clock today at the Union, Smith Halls, and Gore Hall. These will close at 2 o'clock, while those at the Business School and the Law School will close at 3 and 5 o'clock respectively. The ballot-boxes tomorrow will be open at the following places: Langdell Hall, Austin Hall, Sever Hall, and the Baker Library, 9 to 5 o'clock; Union, Smith Halls, and Gore Hall, 12 to 2 o'clock. The polls will be open all day at the Crimson Building on both Monday and Tuesday...