Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that 25% of the investment in power houses and transmission lines is idle and is piling up fixed charges. . . ." He further recognized that the nation's power surplusage would soon be increased by Federal and State power projects at Muscle Shoals, Cove Creek, Boulder Dam, Bonneville Dam (Ore.), Grand Coulee Dam (Wash...
...Town Hall Monday night thought for a moment that they were being fooled. Programs told them that they would hear a Bach Prelude, the Chromatic Fantasio and Fugue, Beethoven's Pathétique sonata, Mendelssohn's Rondo Capricioso, six Chopin pieces. On the stage was a grand piano with a man-sized keyboard and to play it there appeared a chubby little girl who, if she had not been so self-possessed, would have looked as if she had wandered there by mistake on the way home from a children's party...
Montevallo is in the "heart of Alabama"--and most of us down here are quite Southern. It has about eight or nine hundred students--girls--'s not a reformatory by the way--'n we have oodles of squirrels on the Campus. It's a grand old place; and near Birmingham, the University of Alabama and Auburn--We're not badly situated...
Because some of the listed objects were easier to acquire than others. Sportsman Harold Stirling ("Mike") Vanderbilt was appointed to set handicaps. As the scavengers trooped back they deposited their trophies with Gene Tunney, Novelist Louis Bromneld, Grand Duke Dmitri of Russia, Banker Charles Hayden, Prince Lodovico Spada Varalli Potenziani, ex- Governor of Rome, who awarded prizes of $500, $300 and two cases of champagne. First to return were Mrs. John C. Waterbury & Nicholas Holmsen, who brought back a white goat, complete with keeper, and a red lantern. From his pocket resourceful Mr. Holmsen extracted a live turtle...
...exhibition of modern German and Austrian church art, characterized by Dr. Charles L. Kuhn, curator of the Germanic Museum, as "the grand splurge of the season" will open at the museum on February 3. The collection, originally brought to the United States for viewing at the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago, will be returned to Europe after it has been seen at the Museum of the University of Rochester, and at the Germanic Museum...