Word: grand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seal the grand alliance, Lewis proposed, the U.M.W. and nine affiliates of the A.F.L. should chip in $250,000 a week each to help Murray's 480,000 striking United Steelworkers ward off "a vast and barbaric attack" on their union...
...Perle Mesta," reported the Luxembourg correspondent of the London Daily Mail, "is in a fair way to blunder a path into the hearts of the 300,000 people of this microscopic Grand Duchy . . . Impulsive, dictatorial, generous, fussy and friendly, Mrs. Mesta approached her job like the task of arranging a rather large tea-party complicated by the presence of some quaint foreigners . . . The people of Luxembourg are pleased as punch to have her here...
...last week, the flood had reached Manhattan. From 60 loudspeakers spotted throughout the wide halls and rabbit warrens of Grand Central Terminal, commuters were pursued by the Blue Danube and the persuasive commercial. F. LeMoyne Page, president of Terminal Broadcasting, Inc., promised to "permeate the whole place" with music broken every 2½ minutes by commercial spot-announcements. "Right now," said Page, '"we're experimenting with the difference in volume caused by the number of people. Ideally, we'd like to develop a 'thermostatic-type' control that would set the volume to the changing volume...
...second; it is a raucous, brash, nervous score, which occasionally edges onto the screen and points to itself and says "listen to me." This again makes the person with the Hollywood conditioned eye-car very uncomfortable. But Van Slyck's music is as superior to the sheep-grazing and grand-entrance-of-the-U.S.-Cavalry background score as the Ivy picture's subtle photography is to the antiseptic reproduction of a Hollywood sound stage...
Other HMC parties were deployed this summer to the Grand Tetons of Wyoming, the Coast Range in Alaska, and the French Alps--a fact which might surprise some of the founders, who originally started the club as a bull-session society. This was in 1924, when Henry S. Hall, Jr. '19 returned from climbing near Banff and wanted to tell all his friends about it. So he invited them to his house and started talking, and called it the Harvard Mountaineering Club...