Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Relief Commission, which helped save the Belgian people from starvation in World War I. And it was in his role as a house guest even more than in his role of presidential representative that Herbert Hoover was able, as he delivered a formal Fourth of July address in the Grand Auditorium that night, to command attention and respect with a sentence: "I would not be your friend if I did not speak frankly...
...young is the modern science of genetics that some of its grand old men are still alive, and some who gave it form are still only middleaged. Outstanding among them: Professor George Wells Beadle of Caltech, who did most to put modern genetics on its chemical basis. Geneticist Beadle is a mere 54. In his working lifetime he has seen genetics grow from a small, rather baffled specialty into a central, exciting science that is drawing the rapt attention of chemists, physicists, mathematicians, even astronomers, as well as nearly every type of biologist...
America's other Henley hope, the University of Washington heavyweight crew, had been eliminated two days before the final by the Russian Trud (Labor) Crew which won the Grand Challenge...
...since linked Espaillat, Frank and Schmahl to each other and to Murphy. Detective Frank has been sentenced to eight months to two years in prison for failing to register as a Dominican agent (he has appealed). Schmahl took the Fifth Amendment before a federal grand jury. Trujillo has refused to waive Espaillat's diplomatic immunity for questioning by the FBI. Instead, Trujillo paid at least $100,000 for an investigation by Manhattan Lawyer Morris Ernst, once famed for defending noble causes, who last month found "not a scintilla of evidence" connecting Murphy and Galíndez...
Copy for Tolstoy. Ségur was seldom far from the Emperor's side during the five fearful months that it took to unravel Napoleon's grand design. He was close enough to hear Napoleon exclaim as he came within sight of the Muscovite capital of logs and gilded domes: "So here at last is that famous city! It was high time!" The remark was used by Tolstoy in War and Peace; probably one of the original French editions of Ségur's journal (first in 1824) was before Tolstoy as he wrote his masterpiece...