Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Representing the Scott club, Edward W. Lane 3L and Wayne A. Bannister 3L pleaded their way to success in the annual Ames Competition--the "grand opera of the Law School", Friday night. They defeated Elwood S. Levy 3L and Edward B. Hanify 3L of the Williston Club...
...meeting of New Jersey's National Emergency Council presided over by Charles Edison, son of the late great inventor. Said the President in an informal speech: "I want to say just one word about the usefulness of what we are doing. There is a grand word that is going around, 'Boondoggling.' It is a pretty good word. If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this Depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come...
These incidents footed up to a grand total of political dissatisfaction with the radio and its division of time, gave radio men a great pain. Pundit Walter Lippmann came to their defense, declaring, "Even if [broadcasting companies] are just they will not seem to be just. They will be accused of being unjust. They will never convince every one that they are just. The pie is too small and the boys are too hungry...
...William Randolph Hearst's New York American, Reporter Mooney last spring wrote a series of articles "exposing" New York's "policy" (numbers game) racket. A Special Grand Jury floundering along in one of the city's perennial vice investigations hopefully summoned him, asked for names & addresses. Reporter Mooney refused to reveal the sources of his information. When he balked at answering the same questions asked by a General Sessions judge, he was sentenced to pay a $250 fine, serve 30 days in jail. The American quickly got him out of jail, carried his case...
...weighing half a ton, probably a fine swimmer, Titanoides liked swamps, crushed lush water plants in his none too capable teeth. Prior to 1932 the only evidence of him was a single jawbone. Then Bryan Patterson of the Field Museum found three skeletons, two fragmentary, one almost complete, near Grand Junction, Colo. The excellent specimen put on show in Chicago last week is the only one of Titanoides visible in any of the world's museums...