Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some 3,000 pair of eyes were glued on the two chairmen as, each in a natty light brown suit with handkerchief peeping from breast pocket, they mounted the Forum platform in the Grand Ballroom of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria one afternoon last week. The rivals grinned, clasped hands...
...July day in 1883 when its convening members tramped through the flag decked streets of Denver the Grand Army of the Republic was 100,000 strong. Eighteen years out of the Civil War, Union veterans were in the prime of their early 40's marched with firm steps, heads up. Founded in 1866 as a patriotic, non-political fraternal body, the G. A. R. was in process of becoming the greatest Treasury-raiding machine the nation had yet seen. Solidly allied with the dominant Republican Party, it was well started on its course of welding power in a crusading...
Since the advancement of Bill Tabler, veteran drum major, to the rank of drill master, concern has been felt throughout the University that the grand entrance of the band during the year's first intermission would be unheralded by the traditional crossbar fling...
Final figures on Student Council collections at registration show that a total of $3,790 was paid in cash and that an additional sum of $3,886 was pledged, making a grand total...
Seven thousand people will be added to the population of Cambridge today, as the grand influx of upperclassmen and graduate students swarms into Memorial Hall before the 5 o'clock deadline. A grand total of some 8,000 students is expected, slightly higher than last year's figure...