Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington apartment to attend an alumni banquet at his alma mater, Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. What brought Alumnus McReynolds (Class of '82) and 500 other alumni back to Vanderbilt was a long-awaited, long-dreaded piece of news. At 77, their Chancellor James Hampton Kirkland, the Grand Old Man of Southern Education, was going to retire...
...During the Revolution everyone of importance from George Washington to Lafayette belonged to them. Some subsequent samples: Daughters of the Prairie of the Benevolent Protective Herd of Buffaloes of the World, Get There America Benefit Association, Prudent Patricians of Pompeii of the U. S. of America, Grand United Order of Galilean Fishermen, Grand Fountain of the United Order of True Reformers...
Awarded. Benito Mussolini, 54, Premier of Italy, and his son-in-law Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Foreign Minister; by Adolf Hitler, Chancellor of Germany; first two decorations as Knight Grand Cross of Merit of the Order of the German Eagle...
Epsom Downs is not a flat mile-and-a-half but a tricky course which first runs uphill, drops down around a sharp turn, rises again at the finish. Coming into the stretch, Goya II forged in front as Perifox and the Aga Khan's Le Grand Duc moved up to challenge. Goya II soon faltered and Jockey Michael Beary, who had run Mid-Day Sun to the outside to escape the friction at the turn, pushed his steed fresh down the sun-baked stretch, streaked up to a clean length's lead. Mid-Day Sun held fast...
...turned from the confused course of Europe to consider the state of his Church in the U. S. Last week he commanded that a new, 17th archdiocese be established in Detroit. To it he assigned the 600,000-odd Catholics of that diocese, the 148,000 of Grand Rapids-both dioceses having been in the Province of Cincinnati-and some 87,000 of Marquette, heretofore part of the province of Milwaukee. Thus the Detroit archdiocese becomes the fifth largest in the U. S. Within it the Pope set up a new diocese, Lansing, 93rd in the U. S. Its bishop...