Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less than three days in the collective life of a french regiment of the line and in the individual lives, presented in a counterpoint pattern, of a number of the members of the regiment, from privates to the division commander. The division commander lusts for a star of a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour, so he orders the exhausted regiment, after only a few hors of its promised ten day leave, back to the Front for an atack which the colonel knows is suicidal and which is stopped almost before it is started by a nearly complete slaughter...
...merit in the field of American Literature for her essay, "The Less Traveled Road, A Study of Robert Frost." It is the first time in several years that the prize has not been awarded to a Harvard contestant. Honorable mention was given to Edwin M. Snell '35 of Grand Rapids, Michigan for an essay, "The Modern Fables of Henry James...
Underground in Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal, a shapely, young-looking man sat on a baggage truck one morning last week, swinging his legs and valiantly pretending that he was not at all dazed. Few hours before in Detroit, Tenor Edward Johnson had been the dreamy hero of Deems Taylor's Peter Ibbetson. Then suddenly, on the baggage truck, he was supposed to tell reporters how it felt to be General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera, the successor to Herbert Witherspoon who dropped dead two weeks after he had taken over the job from Giulio Gatti-Casazza (TIME...
During the grand rally which tycoons, farmers' spokesmen, chemists, propagandists and journalists conducted at Henry Ford's Dearborn, Mich. fortnight ago to transform farm products into factory goods, chemical engineers emerged as key men of the entire procedure...
Catherine the Great was not a Russian nor was her name Catherine. Born Sophia Augusta Frederica, the unconsidered daughter of a German princeling, she was brought up to be a pawn of European diplomacy; at 14 she was sent to Russia to marry her third cousin, Grand Duke Peter (half-German). For 17 years she lived at the Russian court, waiting for the aging Empress Elizabeth to die, waiting-what was worse-for her neurotic husband to make her his wife. The first nine of those years they lived together, and Catherine did her wifely duty as her husband...