Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ardent oarsman in his youth; in 1887 he rowed bow in the Cambridge eight and in later years won the Grand and Steward's cups at Henley-on-Thames...
...Grand National Assembly at Angora ordered that no Government building was to lower the Turkish flag to half-mast on the occasion of the death of President Harding. It is believed that Turkey is the only country in the world which did not observe this custom. The Government was not represented at any memorial service...
Four hundred miles of the most dangerous rapids in the United States-through the Grand and Marble Canyons of the Colorado-will be traversed between Aug. 1 and Oct. 1 by a party of map makers and geologists sent out by the U. S. Geological Survey, under the direction of Col. C. H. Birdseye, a World War veteran, chief topographical engineer of the Survey. Their four boats are specially constructed with air chambers, and are manned by the most skillful boatmen of the region. The men are strapped in the cockpits, wearing life preservers continually. The mapping of the Colorado...
...Grand Central...
...members of the Painters' and Sculptors' Gallery Association, which runs the unique new galleries at the Grand Central Terminal, New York (TIME, March 24), drew lots in June for the order in which they should choose the works of art to which they are entitled. Thirty of them have now made their selections. Richard T. Crane, Jr., Chicago millionaire, led the field, and, with his pick of 114 intriguing oils and bronzes, carried off John Singer Sargent's contribution, Artist Sketching, a small self-portrait in a milieu of forest, valued at $5,000. The Sargent is inconspicuous...