Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last time the German juggernaut rolled, it went through Luxembourg, the tiny (999 sq. mi.) independent duchy tucked in between Belgium and France on the German border. Last week Luxembourg's ruler, Grand Duchess Charlotte, 43, was at home, with Europe shaking around her. At the White House as weekend guests (she has no Washington embassy) arrived her husband, sporting Prince Consort Felix, and their son. Prince Jean, 19. Besides wild boars, a favorite hobby of Prince Felix is the big Luxembourg radio station (strongest west of Moscow) and which, should the juggernaut roll again, would surely be extracted...
This sort of front, plus a prodigious capacity for turning out ideas and listenable plays, make Arch Oboler NBC's No. 1 Wonder Boy. His start toward such a ranking goes back to a bundle of estimable playlets he turned out in 1934-35 for the Grand Hotel program. This got him an NBC job writing for Rudy Vallee's hour, as well as a Wednesday after-midnight radio dreadful called Lights Out. After two eldritch years, during which Lights Out collected a batch of eerie-minded fan clubs and curdled more next-door neighbors than any program...
...football team was "Big Three" champion for the second straight year; the soccer team was Eastern Intercollegiate champion; the crows swept the Yale regatta for the second successive year and the varsity crew later won the Grand Challenge Cup in the Henley Royal Regatta at Henley, England...
...grand triumph of the hockey season was the play of Captain Austic Harding. One of the greatest of all Harvard ice stars, Austic shone on a mediocre team. After a fair-to-middling season, the six captured the objective series with Yale by tying the Blues at New Haven, 3-3, and crushing them, 7-3, in Boston. Harding closed his collegiate career in a blaze of glory by tallying four goals in the final Yale game...
...Grand and colorful climax to the onslaught against Yale was the second straight sweep of the four-race regatta on the silver River Thames at New London, Ct. All the crews--combination, freshman, junior varsity and varsity--won handily under the masterful coaching of Tom Bolles. The varsity's triumph was its fourth straight over Yale...