Word: openings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were attacked on the open road and had not gone further into the danger zone than we had many times before. It was fairly late and we were not aware what had happened at first, but soon saw that we were surrounded by seven bandits armed with rifles. They did not lay hands upon us, but with their weapons forced us to drive the car into the woods until we had to abandon it there. It was here that they killed Mme. Prokorov's little...
...short time ago France and Jugoslavia solemnly signed a treaty of military alliance. For Jugoslavs it was a guarantee against aggression by Italy. Much relieved, they gave vent to open anti-Italian agitation. Long and loud were the cries that the treaty had "put Italy in her place" and had "shattered Mussolini's aggressive aims in the Balkans...
...them all at Suez to follow him later. His best film, he said, was of 25 lions gamboling 20 ft. from his camera; his rarest trophy the golden-haired baboon. At Nairobi, capital of British East Africa, he sold 17 National Cash Registers in one day and decided to open up National Cash Register branches in Africa...
...bearded face of Tagore, the horselike countenance of the Duchess of Marlborough, the several gay and wayward studies of Peggy Jean (Mr. Epstein's child). When they looked across the room at No. 21, they wondered what wild emotion caused the bronze woman to clasp her hands and open her mouth in so inane a fashion. Some of the sharper babbits decided that she was laughing at the companion works of Sculptor Epstein; then they looked at their catalogs and saw, "No. 21: Weeping Woman." They turned to the bronze face again. Slowly there crept into their minds...
...Dean Hanford's thorough exposition of the conduct of the imminent Reading Periods is that the Faculty has "confidence in the ability of the student and in his desire to use the opportunities well." This, with the general undergraduate attitude eagerness to test the experiment and at least an open mind toward its possible results--is an encouraging augur for what must be admitted is an unknown field. Whatever be the outcome of the Period it will have been based on a mutual understanding of both Faculty and students. Each realizes that there are dangers to be faced and each...