Word: grands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their canoes long before white men came with sloops and schooners, and all the modern devices for safety on the waters. He saw the waterfront of Portland, a city set on an hill, and a commercial center of no mean import, with its huge grain elevators of the Grand Trunk, its docks full of freight steamers of grain and of and lumber, and its fleet of ferryboats plying out to the islands in Casco Bay. It was like a miniature New York...
Died. Grenville Temple Emmet, 60, U. S. Minister to Austria; of double pneumonia after a two-day illness; in Vienna. Minister Emmet, a great-grand-nephew of famed Irish Patriot Robert Emmet, was a onetime law partner of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, onetime (1934-37) U. S. Minister to The Netherlands. He assumed the Austrian Ministry just ten days before his death...
...scientific expedition in North America in years has attracted more attention than that given during the past fortnight to a party, sponsored by Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, which was exploring a lofty plateau called Shiva Temple in Arizona's Grand Canyon. Nevertheless it seemed to some skeptical observers that the expedition which started out with the trappings of a scientific romance, had by last week assumed the cap & bells of a scientific joke...
...illustrious Amos Alonzo Stagg, "Grand Old Man of Football," whose Springeld team met Harvard for the first time in 1891, young Stagg faces his first severe test today. He is tackling a task this season which a less courageous young man would shun like poison ivy. Coming from Moravian College, a small Pennsylvania school, the 28-year old mentor stepped into a job formerly held by Jack Rothacher, rated by experts as one of the finest small college coaches in New England. He stepped in at a time when veterans were low and the schedule tough...
Louis took him to Waimea Canyon, which in the sunlight displayed colors as brilliant as those of Grand Canyon. Louis was full of old legends and superstitions, and here he took time to seek of the fire goddess Pele, who roamed about Kattai digging caves as she searched for a home; but each cave held water, and she had to move on to another and another until she settled in one with almost no water, which was unfortunate, for ever after she was never quite as hot. At least so Louis said...