Word: grandness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While most Harvard athletes were vacationing, the Men's Varsity Crew team was off in England busy winning the world's premier rowing regatta. The Crimson took the Grand Challenge Cup at the 140th annual Henley Rowing Regatta in Henley-on-Thames with a three-and-two-thirds lengths victory over Ivy League rival Princeton in the first all-American final in 18 years. Harvard had not won the prestigious event since...
...Grand News...
...mother, father and daughter disappeared, only to be sighted later mingling suspiciously with passengers. Authorities arrested the couple on grand-theft and child-endangerment charges. Police said Arias and his wife could be pickpockets, and that they had trained their 23-month-old daughter to do precisely the kind of swiping she had nearly pulled off. "Apparently her parents taught her to do this," said Sergeant Roger Belding. Authorities put the toddler in protective custody...
...Business collapsed when the Government reclassified the gun as an automatic weapon in 1982, but the Daniels got around the restriction by marketing a $300 MAC-10 kit that could be used to build a rapid-fire pistol with parts available from another company. In June a grand jury in Fresno, Calif., indicted the Daniels and two others on charges of conspiring to manufacture and market the parts for making illegal automatic weapons and silencers...
...ragpicker in the 1860s; in 1882 Van Gogh praised the city dump of the Hague as "a real paradise for the artist." But no one, not even Picasso with his cubist collages, did more to expand and discipline this field of imagery than Schwitters. Consequently, there is something persistently grand as well as tenacious, antic and rebellious about this long-overdue show...