Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grand ballroom of Chicago's Hotel Sherman 500 spectators who had paid 50? each for admission watched tensely from behind a railing. In the arena before them four men and one woman sat at desks spaced 15 feet apart, five tense figures crouching over typewriters while their flying fingers danced upon the keyboards. The world's champion typewriting title was at stake...
...Mich., East Lansing Senior High School; Charles H. Luther, of Wayzata, Minn., Blake School, Minneapolis; John S. Murphy, R. F. D. 1, Fulton, Ky., South Fulton High School; Thomas J. Pressly, of 804 Temple Avenue, Knoxville, Tenn., Knoxville High School; Thomas H. E. Quimby, of 21 South Union Avenue, Grand Rapids, Mich., Central High School, Grand Rapids; Fred A. Rice, of 506 Second Avenue, South, St. Cloud, Minn., Technical High School, St. Cloud...
...mother drove our car around the block once, because she was unable to park. When she drove up in front of the office again, my father and I were wait ing for her and I was a full-fledged Indiana driver, 50? poorer. It took me a grand total of live minutes to acquire my license and I was asked only one question: "Have you ever, in any State, been issued a driving permit?" My answer was "No." Please tell me when that 20 hours a semester of highschool instruction requirement came into existence. I would like to know...
...station crowd to shake the Landon hand as Lexingtonians whooped with pride, A driving rainstorm beat the Landon special to Omaha by a few minutes. Leaving his private car, the Kansas Governor climbed up on a baggage truck and shouted above the din: "This is a grand welcome and this rain is the finest thing I've seen this summer...
...many a California landholder this action seemed just and proper. The Sonoma County Grand Jury refused to indict. The District Attorney declined to act. Last week, however, Sonoma County learned to its astonishment that State's Attorney Ulysses Sigel Webb had had informations filed against 23 prominent citizens, including President Arthur Meese and Secretary Frederick Cairns of the Healdsburg Chamber of Commerce, City Editor Julian Mayar of the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat. All were charged with kidnapping, assault with a deadly weapon, assault to commit bodily injury on Green and Nitzberg. The defendants, later reduced to 21. all represented...