Word: grand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Private enterprise, says the true Tory, perished the day the government took over the post office, or anyway, when it invented the income tax. As for sport-football vanished when the forward pass came in, and baseball was ruined by the rabbit ball. And the grand old game of golf has never been the same since some dratted tinkerer invented the wedge. To make matters worse, sir, courses are getting so short and simple that tournament scores are outrageous...
...next day, before the 2,113 people jampacked into the Conrad Hilton's grand ballroom, Wolfson took the fight to Avery. He compared Ward's earnings of 5.5% on investment to Sears's 13%, J. C. Penney's if he couldn't do better, said Wolfson he "would tender my resignation and walk out." He reported spending $350,000 so far on the proxy fight, added he expected the stockholders would be "glad" to repay...
Last week, after 5½ months of hearings, the case against Lamb was shot full of holes. A grand jury indicted one FCC witness for perjury; another recanted his testimony, and two others admitted to violating...
...School will be forced to make outside appeals for funds to match the recent Ford Foundation grand providing for an International Legal Studies building at the School, it was learned last night...
Sunday night at 10:00 o'clock, when the checkered flag drops, the car that has covered the most laps will take the grand prize. Each class will have its own winners, and there will be a performance award for which each car will get a handicap based on its engine displacement. If his luck holds out, Oldtimer René Dreyfus figures that his Arnolt-Bristols will be up among the victors...