Word: granded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Graduation Exercise. In Grand Rapids, Marjorie Baker, 13, married a 23-year-old ex-convict, explained why: "I just couldn't stand the thought of going through seventh grade again...
Promoter Zeckendorf had let his U.N. site go for a 20% profit, he said. Now he was busily buying up East Side property as far west of U.N. as Grand Central, getting ready to refurbish the whole area. When he sells or develops his neighboring blocks, he expects to make his usual 400% profit. Said he with happy anticipation: "That's how we make progress in this wonderful capitalistic country...
Since a desperate National Assembly had voted him the Premiership a fortnight ago (after M.R.P. and Communist candidates had been defeated), France's grand old man of Socialism had been absorbed in futile attempts to form a Cabinet. The Radicals and their affiliates refused to join a Government which did not include the Rightists; the Communists refused to enter a Government which did. Formula after formula had been shattered by their rock-like intransigence...
General Douglas MacArthur got the French Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, in Tokyo...
...Shed was the grand old dog of all retrievers and this was perhaps his last big year. A jet-black, brown-eyed Labrador, he weighed 85 pounds and was an old-timer at seven. Against him in the national championship last week at Herrin, Ill. were the 19 best retrievers-Labradors, Goldens and Chesapeake Bays...