Word: grands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been wounded four times, shot down seven times, decorated with the Distinguished Service Medal. He celebrated by flying his plane under the Arc de Triomphe. Next time Harold Fowler popped into the news was in 1927 when he became the first U. S. citizen to ride in the Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree. He was thrown twice. Next year he was thrown again. Other activities have been diplomacy, traveling, big-game hunting...
...Commissioner Fowler took to cruising over the city in blimps and autogiros to spot traffic jams, started safety enforcement contests between precincts, instituted numerous strict regulations for motor vehicles. Last week the worth of his work was recognized by the National Safety Council which gave New York its 1936 grand prize as the "city which . . . came nearest to doing for safety the maximum that can be done practically." Currently Deputy Commissioner Fowler is trying to get even closer to the maximum with a city-wide experiment in redirecting traffic, chief feature of which is the abolition of right turns...
...retired in 1931. Braddles already holds the world's record for individual batting in first-class cricket (452 runs, not out) and the record for runs in a Test Match series (974). In the first matches of the current series, Braddies made three centuries (270, 212, 169), a grand total of 810 runs, an average of 90 runs an innings...
Brookfield Dumb-Bell, named for the lemon dumbbell-shaped splotch on his side, was a runt. But he was a champion's son and when his turn came he, too, won the top U. S. bird dog championship, the National Field Trials on the Hobart Ames plantation at Grand Junction, Tenn. One autumn when he had grown old and too slow for quail, the little setter's master took him away from his familiar brush and stubble to the thick pines of Minnesota to hunt grouse. Out of his master's sight one grey afternoon...
Touched by that story were the sportsmen gathered at Grand Junction last week for the 42nd annual running of the National Field Trials. But in a long fortnight of dog-running, it was the only reminder they had of heroic Brookfield Dumb-Bell. Thirty-nine of the nation's best bird dogs, one of the biggest entry lists in years, performed in colorless fashion. Experts blamed the poor showing partly on the weather-late winter snow and sleet alternating with blustery spring winds-but also on the seldom-mentioned fact that the Ames Plantation is no longer precisely overrun...