Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard will be well represented at the annual Automobile show which opened yesterday in New York City's Grand Central Palace, by students in the Bureau for Street Traffic Research. Nineteen men now studying traffic problems and their solution will operate the devices for driver-testing in a "driver's clinic" developed by Harry R. DeSilva, lecturer on Motor Vehicle Administration and Driver Control...
Rochester, N. Y.. city of cameras and music, is the hotbed of U. S. zither playing. There last week the United Zither Players of America gathered for its Tenth National Congress and, proudly led by the Rochester Zither Club, climaxed a three-day meeting with a grand plinkety-plink concert. There are 100 zither players in Rochester, all of Teutonic origin...
...smoking while listening to music by 35 players, mostly from the New York Philharmonic Symphony. Mr. Marrow and the same 35 turned up in The Bronx Concourse Plaza last fortnight as the New Court Symphony. But ten players had to be jettisoned at once when it appeared that the grand ballroom would not be grand enough to hold the full orchestra and the audience which it was expected would fill the 1,200-odd seats at $1 a head...
...were sold in Lexington, Ky. To sportswriters, whose occupational disease is sentimentality, this sale was an occasion for mourning. It followed hard on an announcement by Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney that he was going to give up racing for good, and it marked the beginning of the end of a Grand Old Stable...
...defeated war horses Hoover and Landon, unreconciled even in their hour of travail. Neither of these former champions have ever seemed peculiarly ingrained in the affections of the American people but Senator Vandenburg is a man of different caliber and definitely the most quietly impressive figure in the "grand old party." That he will wear upon his sage and untroubled brow the republican laurel in the next election, is a fairly universal opinion...