Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...citizens that their country has not so inaccurately been called a New United Europe. In Louisiana, near the Mississippi's mouth, there remains a section still racially pure and traditionally almost a country within a country, the Bayou Teche country of the French who fled from Grand Pré, Canada, in 1755. They are les Acadiens. Last week, like other distinguished Frenchmen before him, Ambassador Paul Claudel went there. "Vous êtes ici parmi les Français," a serious local dignitary told him. "Nos ancêstres sont fraçais, nos sentiments sont fraçais, notre...
HARVARD 1931 WORCESTER Basset, c.f. 2b., Kittredge Jewell, 1b. c.f., Bowers Des Roches, 2b. 3b., Le Grand McGrath, s.s. 1b., Hewitt Samborski, l.f. s.s., Klumb Ogden, 3b. l.f., O'Malley Batchelder, c. r.f., Giobino Leonard, r.f. c., McHugh Gilmore, p. p., Robinson...
Conde Nast, publisher of Vanity Fair, Vogue, etc., purchased the controlling interest in the Grand Central Palace and a neighboring office building in Manhattan. The deal involved $15,000,000. He said he would use the upper floors of the Grand Central Palace for permanent industrial exhibits and continue the policy of leasing the three lower floors for annual automobile, boat, flower shows...
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Even in France one does not take this genial 250-pounder seriously--no one, that is, except the police, who have learned from bitter experience that behind this gentleman's grand opera gestures there beats a brain capable of engineering even the most subtle of prison breaks...