Word: granded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brown-mustached Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Murphy rose to make his opening statement as undramatically as if he were reading a directors' report. He spoke dispassionately: the case of the U.S. v. Alger Hiss was a simple one-just a matter of two counts of perjury before a grand jury...
These are the days that try men's souls; the petty, perfunctory academic hurdles loom large before one's eyes. The short-sighted will feel oppressed. A flight to contemplation of the eternal grand, indifferent order of things is needed to counteract this obsession with the ephemeral. Many have turned to find peace and perspective in the pinball machine...
...indictment charged that when Bridges became a U.S. citizen in 1945, he lied by swearing that he was not a Communist and never had been. The grand jury, after listening to a few of Bridges' old labor pals and several ex-Commies, charged that Harry Bridges had been a Communist for twelve years, and that he is still a Communist...
Last week, John P. Boyd, special assistant to Attorney General Tom Clark, said: "We have evidence that has never been shown up to now. We're sure we'll win-otherwise we wouldn't have brought all this before the grand jury. This is the first criminal indictment ever returned against Bridges." Harry Bridges, a noisy foe of the Truman Administration, had his own theory about the charges: "A smokescreen to get people's attention away from what's happening in Washington...
...others. In time, Henderson became head of the mathematics department at the University of North Carolina, one of the top historians of the South, and a biographer of George Bernard Shaw. He mastered so many fields of learning that G.B.S. called him "the Grand Panjandrum." "He is the only man in the world," added Yale's late William Lyon Phelps, "who can talk professionally on equal terms with Einstein and . . . Shaw...