Word: grander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much-distilled terms, the fond picture projected by the report is of a vastly more vigorous intra-mural sports program. Its scope is grander, the facilities are more equal to the demands, the coaching is better, the spirit of competition is keener, the participation is larger. The elusive fire-fly of "athletics for all" will for once be captured. There will be a decisive de-emphasis of sports if by emphasis is meant playing to win--for the old grads and the Sunday columnists. There will be new emphasis in the sense of athletics for sport and for physical gain...
...name of the Hopkins act was Restoring Business Confidence. Nothing quite like it had ever been staged under New Deal management. Heretofore Franklin Roosevelt's morsels of encouragement to Private Profit had been tossed out as asides in speeches which concentrated on the New Deal's grander social objectives. Even the famed "breathing spell" of 1935 came only in answer to a letter from a publisher.* Now, Depression and an election having intervened, the fairest-haired lieutenant of the whole New Deal was being sent out to effect Recovery through the strange and unfamiliar medium of Business itself...
Michigan resembles a left hand turned palm downward, and its remotest part is The Thumb. One day last fortnight in the little town of Ubly farmers from the three northern counties of The Thumb-Huron, Tuscola, Sanilac-gathered for a band concert, a baseball game, a celebration grander than any county fair. Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy, a Huron County boy, was there to make a speech. But the biggest attraction in Ubly was a giant generator, whose 3,000 horsepower was ready, when the switch was pulled, to gallop over 542 miles of newly strung electric lines. After...
...become famous in the future, some who will be failures, a sprinkling of ditch-diggers-to-be. In return for four years here they have left behind several thousand dollars at Lehman Hall, a few really grand moments which the newspapers, the public, and their fellows have sometimes made grander, sometimes ignored. And now, Harvard--a hundred assorted buildings, a thousand heterogeneous individuals on the Faculty, countless millions of ideas in limbo and ideas in concrete--you, Harvard, they leave behind...
Unique among college organizations is the Harvard Memorial Society, and no more fitting school could foster it than Harvard, whose history is longer and grander than that of any other American college. The searching out and the preservation of the tradition which have too often been forgotten must certainly be a worthwhile occupation. The fact that it has in the past attracted such eminent names as Roosevelt, Adams, Lodge, and Hart attests to its worth. Useful and commendable are the services which its can perform in the future...