Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...bicycle races will be contested on the Phaleric plan half way between the city and the seashore, the swimming and rowing races in the roadstead of Phaleron, and the yacht races in the Saronic Gulf. There is to be an illumination of the great monuments of antiquity, a grand historical torchlight procession representing scenes from Greek history, and a series of representations of dramatic masterpieces, beginning with a tragedy by Sophocles and ending with Wagner's "Lohengrin," and a special Olympic hymn by a modern Greek composer is to be sung by a monster chorus. A great attendance by athletes...
Ernest Daniel Grand, Bach. es.- letters Paris 1881, Archiv. Paleog. Ec. des Chartes 1886: 1 yr. Graduate School; Romance Philology; in place of Henry Walter Bunn (English) declined...
...mean. Avarice shows a mean spirit in the relations between a miserly landlord and his tenants; the drunkard is mean in the neglect of his family. In short, committing sin shows the choice of what is petty, mean, and small in place of what is generous and grand...
...year 1137, Elinor, grand-daughter of William IX of Aquitaine, married Louis VII of France. The marriage was not a happy one. It was ended by a divorce allowed on the grounds of propinquity, she being his cousin seven times removed. Being freed thus, Elinor was again married, this time to Henry, Count of Anjou. The alliance is significant to us from its social rather than its political effects. By far the most important part of Elinor's dowry was the new conception of society which she brought with her from the south of France to the northern provinces...
...conference was held at Princeton, yesterday, by the managers of the Harvard and Princeton football teams, to prepare for the coming match. There will be four grand stands which will seat 10,000. No admission tickets will be sold beyond this number. This is done because of the lack of railroad facilities and the poor accommodations for handling a larger crowd at Princeton. Applications for seats will have to be made by blanks, which will be distributed among the Princeton and Harvard clubs within a few days. No applications for seats will be received after 12 noon, Monday...