Word: granded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end the winds were beginning to blow. Between showers the sun shone fitfully and there was a moon for night plowing. As Eire's farmers drove their spades deep into the soggy earth, Eire's priests prayed for the fine weather to hold. "A grand campaign of prayer and work will save us," said Patrick Collier, Bishop of Ossory...
...that lure workers from their jobs, had forced two of the year's biggest events into a single Saturday. At Aintree (just north of Liverpool), the 4½-mile steeplechase course, toughest in the world, was a quagmire. As if there were not already enough obstacles on the Grand National Steeplechase (which determines the Irish Sweepstakes winners), nature had added a few more: first frozen ground, then floods. The odds on strongly backed Bricett* shot up to 40-1 after a training injury...
Children of Paradise. French-made romance on the grand scale, about Parisian theater people of the 18403 (TIME...
Enthusiastic thanks from the New York headquarters of the World Students Service Fund reached Richard D. Campbell, Jr. '48 last night, recognizing the $23,085 grand total of University and faculty contributions for overseas food relief as "the largest amount from any college in the history of the fund...
...newcomer to Dublin, Mary treasured a cigaret butt Yeats had thrown away, went to every performance of his plays, watched awestruck as he passed on the street, "strange looking, with dark, sorcerer's eyes." Later, when they became acquainted, she found him rather a snob, affecting the "grand air of a Renaissance prince" and sometimes even failing in "ordinary good manners." But "I never knew a greater mind or a greater man, one with such all-round endowments...