Word: opening
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days in advance were changed at the last moment. Admiring throngs lined the streets over which it was announced the President was to pass on his automobile trip to Southern Indiana across Louisville's new $5,000,000 municipal bridge (then unopened to the public-but since thrown open to traffic, Oct. 31) and likewise throngs waited in the rain for the President on his scheduled route to the Brown Hotel. Plans were changed so that these routes were but partly used, the bridge was not crossed and thousands of those who made it possible for Kentucky to give...
President Hoover last week had a chance to compare himself with Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. Both those great men were mentioned in an open letter to the White House from long-nosed William Randolph Hearst, who said he wanted President Hoover to make ''some reassuring utterance" at this time of "sudden and unjustifiable collapse of (stock) values." He said...
After midnight one night last week, three cars sped up to the gate of the high-walled U. S. Naval Base in Brooklyn, N. Y., where are stored the Atlantic fleet's supplies. Out leaped six men. A guard felt the tickly touch of revolver muzzles, swung open the gate. Into the wide Naval Depot yard swept the cars. The guard was forced to unlock the door of the eight-story main building. Then the raiders trussed him up, plastered his mouth with adhesive tape, locked him in the Depot detention...
Harvard's basketball season will open officially on Monday when Coach E. A. Wachter sounds the call for all candidates for positions on the Crimson quintet. The past week has found some 20 men working out in informal practice under the tutelage of the University mentor...
...Yard is no longer the population center of the college for with the completion of the new houses the majority of students will be living near the river. In addition to this, a building as large as the proposed chapel would occupy much of one of the last open spaces in the already well filled Yard. With unit number two of the houses obliterating one of the few grass plots remaining in this section of Cambridge, the college, authorities should avoid rather than project a crowded building plan...