Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proportion of the Foreign Service in the United States, where there are approximately 750 persons in the Foreign Service (of which about 200 are in the Diplomatic and 550 in the Consular Service) and in addition there are about 700 persons in the Department of State, making a grand total of 1,450 out of 130,000,000, or approximately 1 to every 100,000 inhabitants. I have given these statistics, not to be discouraging, but to indicate the fact that, like all Government activities, the work of the Foreign Service must be viewed by the persons entering upon...
After investigating the fatal ambush for four days, a grand jury indicted Chief Cusick, his assistant and the city clerk of Evarts for murder. Arrested and taken before Col. Carrell, Chief Cusick declared: "This is all funny to me. I was in Evarts when the shooting took place and have 50 witnesses to prove...
...compete for the Prix de Rome, candidates are expected not only to submit paintings and sketches for exhibition in Manhattan's Grand Central Palace, but to present themselves at an afternoon tea. There the judges and trustees (of which Professor Savage is one) of the American Academy in Rome inspect each individual. The judges' choice, traditionally a personable as well as talented young man, receives from the Academy a studio and residence on Rome's Janiculum Hill for three years?an honorarium valued at about $8,000?plus $500 in traveling expenses...
...Mate, three-year-old chestnut, owned by A. C. Bostwick: the Preakness at Pimlico, beating Mrs. Payne Whitney's Twenty Grand by a length and a half, with Ladder, an outsider, third, and Equipoise, second choice and winter book favorite for the Kentucky Derby, fourth. Twenty Grand and Equipoise took each other out of the race at the clubhouse turn when both tried to go through the same hole along the rail...
...Atlas Tack 22 D 26 D Barnsdall (oil) 1,420 1 Columbian on Carbon 810 560 Commercial Credit 1,087 865 Container Corp. 135 124 D Crosley Radio 696 D 471 D de Long Hook & Eye 38 48 General American Tank Car 1,703 1,204 Grand Union 235 249 Hayes Body 106 D 93 D Long Bell Lumber 305 D 700 D Ludlum Steel 49 D 16 Mack Trucks 490 178 D Maytag (washing machines) 391 215 Murray Corp. (motor bodies) 295 204 D National Candy 313 112 Newport Co. (chemicals) 426 240 Patino Mines...