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Word: grand (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...Washington. D.C. is just like a fancy ball any place else, except that it is bigger, more fully packed and-when heavily peopled with gay Louisian-ians-easy on the drawl. Last week such a ball bounced bright and noisy off the walls of the Mayflower Hotel's grand ballroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: Mardi Gras on the Potomac | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

Undaunted, Connor came back the next day to win the Stagni Handicap. Then, in the Grand National, biggest race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: St. Moritz Sleigh Ride | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...England After Suez," a report on the state of the "Grand Alliance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Mar. 4, 1957 | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...former Divinity School student who threatened to kill President Pusey was indicted yesterday by a Federal grand jury in Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Steyskal Found Guilty by Jury | 2/26/1957 | See Source »

...appoint the "Committee of Eight" to investigate "some problems of personnel in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences." For the purpose of the individual tutorial system, the Committee's recommendations for a rigid system of academic advancement meant that there would be fewer tutors, and, in that sense, the grand beginnings of tutorial were destroyed. The Committee, nevertheless, did perform the necessary function of reducing the base of the academic pyramid, which had swollen out of all proportion to the number of permanent appointments at the apex...

Author: By George H. Watson jr., | Title: The Harvard House System | 2/26/1957 | See Source »

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