Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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News of Judge Sanford's death reached the Capitol just as the other judges of the Supreme Court were congratulating Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes on his 80th birthday, as Senators were delivering eulogies to "the grand old man of the judiciary...
...Grand Admiral Alfred Paul Friedrich von Tirpitz, creator of the Imperial German Navy, went to a sanitarium in the pine forest back of Munich five weeks ago, tried to shake off an attack of bronchitis. Worn out with coughing, his 81-year-old heart gave way last week...
...Grand Admiral was one of the world's greatest naval technicians. When finally adopted in 1917, unrestricted submarine warfare, which had been as bitterly assailed in Germany as abroad, came within an ace of accomplishing its prime purpose: the starvation of Britain, Germany's U-boats sank 5,500 allied vessels...
...called Royal Prussian Navy, which then consisted of a handful of sham frigates.* In 1897, by steady regular promotion he had become German Naval Secretary and an intimate friend of the Kaiser. In 1900 his "von" was registered in the Almanach de Gotha. In 1911 he was appointed Grand Admiral, Commander-in-Chief of the Navy. All this time, with the Kaiser's enthusiastic approval he was turning British sea lords livid by building up from practically nothing a navy that was to be nearly Britain's equal in fighting strength...
Years before the War, Herr von Tirpitz gave up hope of beating the British fleet in open battle, concentrated secretly on submarines, then little more than an experimental toy. Many are the stories told of the grand admiral's extraordinary technical knowledge. It was a matter of pride with him never to speak from notes. Aides recall that during his years as grand admiral he could recite from memory the name, speed, armament and displacement of every battleship in the world...