Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arizona telephone poles, from the Grand Canyon to the Mexican border, blossomed out last fortnight with posters that screamed...
...Vienna, saved Europe in 1683. Had he prudently stayed at home Vienna would have been sacked by the Turks within five days of the date of the Polish king's victory. With the city's fall most of Europe would have been at the pleasure of the Grand Vizier. But Sobieski, the only European warrior who could stop the Turks, was respected and feared by Islam. When the crucial fight got under way King John, at the head of troops outnumbered five to one, literally hewed his way with his Polish sabre through the heart of the battle...
...Sept. 27 after an 18-minute session a Federal grand jury in Manhattan indicted Frederick Barber Campbell for failing to register gold now valued at $200,574.34 before Sept. 18 as required by the Aug. 28 order. Also imminent was a second indictment charging actual hoarding of gold in violation of the April 5 order...
...White (by Sidney Kingsley; Group Theatre, producer), a medical improvisation on the Grand Hotel theme, is laid in a Manhattan hospital called St. George's and is concerned with the stern denials and spiritual rewards of those who live under the oath of Hippocrates. Capably staged by Lee Strasberg, the play, Mr. Kingsley's first-staged, has periods of magniloquence and structural fatuity. But graceful teamwork on the part of most of the Group's eager company of actors makes Men in White credible, valid in many a sequence...
...Grand Rapids, Mich. Lorence T. Holtzlander, 63, his son Zenith, 16, and two friends were arrested, charged with stealing a 40-ton locomotive, a steam shovel, railroad tracks...