Word: grandness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent tours of New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey and Ohio's Robert A. Taft. Our correspondents who accompanied them were Robert Elson, chief of Time Inc.'s Washington bureau, and Win Booth, who ordinarily covers the White House. By comparison with the usual grand tours of Presidential nominees after the Republican and Democratic conventions, these tours were in the nature of family excursions. Nevertheless, says Elson, who went along with the Taft party, "Booth and I got closer to the men, their families, and the politicians en route, than you ever do to a Presidential...
After the massacre of eight Negro convicts at a Georgia highway camp last July (TIME, July 2 et seq.), a Glynn County grand jury decided that Warden H. G. Worthy and four camp guards were justified in firing on the prisoners. Last week, at nearby Savannah, a federal grand jury thought differently. It indicted the warden and his guards for depriving the Negroes of their lives without due process...
...Antwerp's old Grand' Place one day last week, the U.S. Army held a solemn ceremony. It was to have been almost wholly American, but the people of Antwerp would not have it that way. Throughout the city, they draped their windows with U.S. flags. To the Grand' Place came more than 5,000 Belgians, many of them bearing chrysanthemums and laurel. For Antwerp, whose citizens had called it "the city of sudden death" during the long rain of German V-bombs, this was a day to say thanks and farewell...
...future homemakers traipsed dutifully through the house furnishings show, looking over the latest things in draperies and taking test plops onto sofas. In the piano exhibit, eleven-year-old Frances Dean, of Comanche, delighted her schoolmates and amazed exhibitors by sitting down at a new baby grand and expertly rippling through a Paderewski minuet. Many a future farmer headed for the livestock barns to primp animals for the junior steer, hog and sheep shows. Ralph Finke, 13, of Denison, hauled out a can of Johnson's wax and set to work polishing the horns of his Hereford yearling...
Final figures on the grand total and amounts drawn by each activity will emanate from Agassiz Hall today, Miss Davis said last night. During the week, students will assist the Radcliffe secretarial staff in counting and distributing the money...