Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first grand holiday was last Thursday morning. There, in Memorial Hall, he labored for hours over the 56 passages which were given for English 2, under the now traditional heading: "Interpret, discuss, supply information, as the case may require. Answers should be full, precise, and well expressed. Vague paraphrases are not acceptable. It is well to quote parallel passages. Indicate the context. Do not copy the questions." Yes, that does cover the situation pretty well, on the whole...
...hospital to supply it with steam for laundering and cooking. Many a small city helps dispose of its garbage by feeding it either to hogs of its own or by turning it over to private piggeries. Among hog-feeding towns Alhambra, Calif., Portland, Me., Lynn, Mass., Albany, N. Y. Grand Rapids, Lansing and Ann Arbor, Mich, truck their refuse to piggeries. The cost of incineration runs from 26? per ton at Florence, S. C. to $5 per ton at Providence, R. I., where the plant is a quarter-mile from City Hall...
...celebrate no particular holiday or hero but to show their own prowess, 42 brass bands marched the streets of Tulsa, Okla., last week, then all played together a concert under Bandmaster John Philip Sousa. This grand and noisy occasion was the climax of the Sixth National High School Band Contest. Joliet, Ill. played best of the big schools, Hobart, Ind. of the middle-sized schools, West De Pere, Wis. of the small schools. Fortnight ago in Cleveland the best orchestras came from Cleveland's Glenville High School, East Chicago's Roosevelt High School, Decatur, Mich. High School...
...Affleck wrote first, enclosing a check for 35?-his weekly stipend at pumping-as proposed membership fee. U. S. Senator James Couzens demanded to join; for two years he had pumped at the Presbyterian Church of Chatham, Ont. for $5 a year. Third charter member was Julius Rosenwald (now Grand Quint of the Chicago Loft) who shrewdly earned 25? a Sunday for labor at the First Presbyterian Church of Springfield, Ill. (not at the temple attended by his parents). At last year's meeting of the Chicago Loft, Pumper Rosenwald delivered a report on "My First Pair of Double...
...Many a Wall Streeter will be amused by Customers' Man, many a Main Streeter instructed. Harold Russell ("Night") Ryder, 35, business-getting partner in the defunct brokerage house of Woody & Co. was last week sentenced to not less than three nor more than ten years in prison for grand larceny. He used to say he had $4,000,000 before he was 30, used to call himself "the brightest young man in Wall Street...