Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hope that in a nearby day some great, prescient genius will arise and sing the songs of that great epoch, linking Gettysburg with Chicamauga and Nashville with Franklin in one grand epic poem...
...Reichstag on its opening day. The first scene was one of simple, solemn sensation: General Erich von Ludendorff held court, his admirers standing stiffly at attention before him. He drank a glass of beer, shook hands formally with each Monarchy man who was presented to him. Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz tripped timorously into the Reichstag. Photographers tried to "snap" him as he went, but in his well-known genial manner, he dispersed them with a few deft fencing movements of his cane. Then, after everyone had trooped into the Reichstag Chamber, Herr Bock, aged 78, oldest Reichstag member, rang...
...Tirpitz!" The Communists felt bound to show him nautical honors. As one man they rose and focussed a common hiss upon the chin foliage of the Grand Admiral, allegedly in imitation of a sea breeze. But the Grand Admiral was not moved...
Last week Dr. Stone went to Grand Rapids (furniture town in Michigan) as a commissioner to the annual...
...While Dr. Macartney at Grand Rapids was eulogizing Brooklyn the Methodists at Springfield (Mass.) assembled (TIME, May 12, et seq.), hammered out an anti-war doctrine. The strongly pacifist resolution (TIME, May 26) demanding that the Methodist Church dissociate itself from all war, offensive or defensive, was defeated. Pacifists led by Dr. Ray Allen, of Rochester, N. Y., and Dr. J. M. Gray, of Scranton, Pa., threatened to bolt the convention. Their threat resulted in the adoption of a report which almost, though not quite, upheld their extreme position. The Methodist Church was put on record as being opposed...