Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Turkey has at last followed the lead of other rejuvenated nations in establishing a democratic form of government. The Turkish republic, which has, indeed, been in existence for some time in temporary form, with all power centralized in a Grand National Assembly, is now spreading out into a more familiar organism--a Council of State, which is a sort of upper house, a Cabinet, and a Prime Minister...
...Amid scenes of great enthusiasm Crown Prince and Princess Rupprecht of Bavaria were hailed as King and Queen of Bavaria. The Prince was accompanied by Dictator von Kahr and many of the aristocracy. It was the first public appearance of the Dictator, and the occasion was a reunion and grand celebration of the veterans of the Leibregiment, the defunct Royal Bodyguard, disbanded by order of the Allies under the terms of the Versailles Peace Treaty. Twenty thousand men responded to the roll-call of the regiment. It was pointed out that if 20,000 men answered the call...
...June 15, Ward was indicted for murder by a Westchester County Grand Jury...
Three vast floors of the Grand Central Palace, New York, were filled to bursting with the various exhibits of the Ninth Annual Exposition of Chemical Industries. Lecture courses by prominent chemists were given on Plant Equipment in the Chemical Engineering Industries, Materials of Construction, Chemistry in Commerce. Classes of students from nearby universities were personally conducted by their professors. The General Electric Co. showed an automatic welding apparatus and an electric steam generator. The Anaconda Copper Co. demonstrated methods of roasting sulphurous copper ore to secure by-product sulphuric acid, with which superphosphate fertilizers are made. Eimer & Amend, instrument manufacturers...
...stampeding traffic, Firpo moved across the Canadian border and showed off in Montreal. Thence he journeyed to ponder the tossing waters of Niagara; thence to Cleveland about automobiles, his business side line; thence to New York again, to shut his desk and embark with friends for a pugilistic grand tour of South America, commencing at Lima, Peru...