Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thenceforward the professor's misery grows more and more Tolstoyan until, as the grand climax, Commissar of Education Anatole Lunacharsky appears upon the film in his official capacity, raises up the professor from lowest depths, and places him in a Moscow laboratory where, among congenial atheists, he can complete his "Great Experiment...
...learned scholar who contributed to your columns yesterday has given us a working foundation for solving the weighty issue of the Junior Prom. He decided that the constituency of the 1929 affair was representative of the class as a whole, but that at the same time the grand total of those whom he would like to consider representative was negligible. Now although such a conclusion may sound facetious, there is a chance that it may be mathematically possible. To get at the truth, why not conduct a scientific experiment as follows...
Prayed over the Grand Ducal bier, last week, the Archimandrite Theodosius of the Greek Orthodox (old Russian) Church...
...elected. John R. Voorhis, 99, Grand Sachem of Tammany Hall; to be president of the board of elections of New York City...
Died. Nicholas Nicholaievitch, 72, Grand Duke of Russia; of protracted pneumonia; at Cap d' Antibes, French Riviera...