Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...longer a Senator with a vote, but always a Grand Old Partisan, he said in an interview: "I am a tariff protectionist. I am sure the needs of the South will be given careful consideration in the drafting of the bill...
...matters over to "counselors" who promise to save a taxpayer large sums provided the benefits are equitably divided, has now led to a terrifying state of affairs. Two such "counselors" for cinema folk, Miss Marjorie Berger and Edward H. Hayden, were last week indicted by a U. S. grand jury in Los Angeles on charges of preparing fraudulent tax returns for their big-salaried clients. Cinemactors and actresses quaked at the possibility of conspiracy charges...
...report exonerated Commissioner Burke, whose resignation last week was accepted by President Hoover. Mr. Burke said he was "very happy" to get out. A Federal grand jury in Oklahoma almost indicted him last summer on this very case. Said the President: "I have the highest esteem for Judge Burke . . . and I propose a little later to offer him another important position in public service...
Twenty hours would be a feat indeed. The present record is 15½ hrs., made by a German. Germans have mounted 2,500 ft., have traveled 42 mi. in gliders. They have glider clubs at practically all universities. Each year the clubs hold a grand rodeo over the rolling hills of Wasser-kuppe, near Frankfort-am-Main. German flying organizations require that their pilots be graduates of flying schools. There is a Deutscher und Segelfluguerband and a special periodical, Flugsport...
...Bulletin itself, apparently, sees clearly enough. Besides speaking for the undergraduates, it takes the voice of the alumni, the faculty, and even the social clubs, and makes them all join in one grand assent. On what authority it says these things, except that of habit, it does not publish. The CRIMSON has never pretended to reflect a general undergraduate opinion, but its editors believe that they are correct in suggesting that undergraduate opinion would not choose to be interpreted by such a conformist medium as The Bulletin. The latest essay of that paper is merely another expression of that tacit...