Sentence examples for opened the exposition from inspiring English sources

President Ulysses S. Grant opened the exposition on May 10 , 1876 and over the next six months more than 10 million people viewed the works of 30,000 exhibitors.

Samuel J. Randall opened the Exposition with a speech on the success of the resurrected post-civil war south.

President Theodore Roosevelt opened the Jamestown Exposition on April 25, and Connecticut was named as the official host of the vessels that were visiting from other countries.

Debussy in his own guise opened the concert in a masterly exposition by Oramo of the Prélude à l'Après-Midi d'Un Faune, in which every note, from the rapt opening flute solo – evocatively played by Michael Cox – was astutely positioned.

The summer exposition that opened the park in July 1967 was attended by U.S. Vice President Hubert Humphrey but was plagued by rain, financial problems, and low attendance.

It hosted the Sesqui-Centennial Exposition in South Philadelphia, and in 1928 opened the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

There, Harlow N. Higinbotham, president of the Exposition Company, took mallet and chisel in hand and opened the keg, removing the cigar box.

In 1915, Lane returned to San Francisco to open the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.

On the opening day of the Exposition, well over 100,000 people visited.

At the opening party for the exposition, held the next afternoon in a hangar-size conference room, Marclay was polite when people from New York, L.A., and Tokyo told him how much they adored the video, but he beamed when he was approached by people who loved his old stuff.

In 1900, when Paris opened its grand Exposition Coloniale Internationale, the Eiffel Tower was the wonder of the city.