Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...editor of the Grand Rapids, Mich. Herald dug a forefinger reflectively behind his ear, where his scholarly spectacles bit him, scratched a big house-match for his long denicotinized cigar, and turned back to his typewriter. It was November 1,1925; he was finishing his third book, The Trail of a Tradition. In it he had recorded his belief that, historically and logically, U. S. isolation from foreign affairs is not only an "unbroken highway from yesterday to now" but the "safer, surer...
...this fight last week Vandenberg came in top form. The much-used bookcases in the unpretentious two-story brick-stucco house in Grand Rapids had been explored night after night; the rolltop desk in his little den had rattled steadily under the impact of his heavy-handed typing. That house holds all of Arthur Vandenberg's private life. There he moved the year (1906) he jumped from city-hall reporter to managing editor of the Grand Rapids Herald-the paper to which he came as a cub the same night in 1902 that Frank Knox also applied for work...
...campaign in Poland is ended. . . . The grand total of captives is now up to more than 450,000. The total of guns seized already is above 1,200. ... In all approximately 800 [Polish aircraft] either were destroyed or fell to the [German] Army as booty. . . . With the exception of a submarine, all the Polish fleet still in the North Sea on Sept. 1 was destroyed or interned in neutral harbors. ... Of the entire Polish Army only an insignificant remainder still is fighting at hopeless posi tions in Warsaw, in Modlin and on the Peninsula...
Communist students in the University will join the entire Massachusetts branch of the Party in a mass meeting this evening in the Grand Ballroom of the Hotel Bradford in Boston...
This leaves nearly 2,000 undergraduates yet unregistered, and these are expected in Cambridge today along with 4,000 more graduate students, making a probable grand total of 8,500 members of the University...