Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grand total of $63,000 from 6,863 alumni has been received thus far in 1935 it was revealed in the tenth annual meeting of the Harvard Fund Council held yesterday in Wadsworth House. The total amount raised since the establishment of the fund ten years ago has now reached $1,215,994 contributed by 16,456 alumni...
When informed of the snub Massachusetts Medicine had given Dr. Truesdale as a result of her case, she wept great tears and cried: "Those cruel, old fogy New England doctors. . . . Oh, I love Dr. Truesdale. What can I do to help him? He was grand...
...were few examples of this at the Hammer Galleries. The sort of pictures that the Tsars and their friends liked were skillful paraphrases of British and French 19th Century portraits, sentimental landscapes, super-magazine illustrations. On view were five seascapes by Ivan Aivazovsky, a marine painter so beloved by Grand Dukes that they used to buy his pictures by the square inch, covering the canvas with 1,000 rouble notes...
...years in prison. More important, the Miami chief of detectives informed them that it was Noel Scaffa who had delivered the jewels, that a split of the insurance company's $15,000 reward had been planned with a Scaffa operative in for $1,000. A Federal Grand Jury in New York promptly summoned Detective Scaffa for questioning. Chief J. Edgar Hoover let it be known that his Federal Bureau of Investigation was about to crack open a criminal ring which would make the late John Dillinger & gang look like apple-snitchers...
...campaign culminates in a grand burst of ballyhoo over Railroad Week, celebrating the air-conditioning of all Western through trains, the first actual service of various streamliners. Festivities will begin June 10 at 8 a. m. when every locomotive from Chicago west, with steam up, will blast its whistle for a full minute. All the round-houses will hold open house...