Word: granded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...following up a new novel (see BOOKS) with yet another, about German crimes and German mistakes. "The human mind forgets too quickly," explained between-the-wars best-seller Remarque. "The simple fact that a man has survived the war . . . makes him, after a short time, remember war as a grand adventure...
...Grand Yen. In Los Angeles, a returned G.I. reported that in Japan an American could buy a wife...
Enigma. In Grand Rapids, Kenneth Franklin, found to possess 50 pairs of loaded dice and less than $15, was arrested for "being unable to give a satisfactory account of himself...
Whatever gods occupied Japan was turning to, they were not the overthrown gods of State Shinto. At the Grand Shrine of Ise, during the New Year's festival, only 80,000 worshippers appeared; in previous years 400,000 came. At the famed Atsuta Shrine in Nagoya, where once 2,000,000 made their pilgrimage, the number dropped...
...party last year, Harvey Dow Gibson, president of Manhattan's Manufacturers Trust Co., fell to chatting with a U.S. Army officer about skiing. -"Ever been to North Conway, New Hampshire?" the officer asked. Gibson said he had. The officer had lyric memories: "Wonderful skiing there on Cranmore Mountain. Grand hotel they have, too-the Eastern Slope Inn. And have you ever heard the Swiss orchestra at the inn? Wonderful orchestra...