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...Motive: Grander guests (& bigger tips for the washroom...
...blows when human victims were wanting. In 1816, a select committee of the House of Commons reported to Parliament in favor of formal purchase of the "Elgin marbles" at a price of ?36,000. The proposal was accepted. Lord Elgin formally transferred the treasures, thus making Great Britain the grander for the glories of Greece...
...Swen Olsen. It was his custom, in traveling about the world, to mark his luggage with his initials, S. O. followed on the same line with U. S. A., for United States of America. From this evolved his name Sousa, which no doubt to his mind was a grander name for a world famed bandmaster. K. S. ROSAAEN...
...what profession today the same is not the case. The inductive method has forced specialization upon the university, that and the knowledge that in generalizations of the Marks, Pingree variety are no approach to truth. The leader in college work must know his field, minutae as well as the grander and more sweeping syntheses...
...Wilie Littleton, is a lawyer of the very first rank and a self-made man every inch of the way. How much insistence and assistance from her lay behind young Vanderbilt's break from Hearst, his formation of the C-V Feature Service and later his beginnings of a grander venture, a chain of tabloid newspapers, doubtless young Vanderbilt himself could not say. Perhaps it was very largely her vigorous nature's impatience with any thing or man not standing on its or his own feet that steeled her husband, Macbeth-wise, to great ambitions; to make a place...