Word: grands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With suppressed glee the office of the Traffic Research Bureau at 29 Holyoke street announced yesterday that a grand total of six students had answered the call for volunteers for a glare-blindness test. They didn't expect...
...Austie Harding sank 21 goals and set up 11 scoring plays to amass a total of 32 points. The other members of the Stubbs 1937 outfit were likewise busy and drove in many a goal to run the Crimson total to 101 of goals and 81 assists for a grand total of 182 points for the season...
...delegates prepared to go into session, they heard shocking news. From the pinks of Columbia University's Teachers College, word went out that their Grand Old Man, grey, kindly Professor William Heard Kilpatrick, was being "forced" out at Teachers College's compulsory retirement age, 65. Professor Kilpatrick, in whose classes many an N.E.A. superintendent once sat, insisted that he was still "well and strong" enough to teach, that the rule had been set aside in the past for "conservative" faculty members. When stocky, conservative Dean William F. Russell of Teachers College turned up in the convention to deliver...
...crowd were George Giannini, Clark Gable, Mrs. E. L. Doheny, Gene Tunney, Adolph Bernard Spreckels, Joe Di Maggio, Rupert Hughes. Comedian Joe E. Brown gave his guests a box lunch in the grand stand. Cinemagent Zeppo Marx, whose brothers spent the day working in a picture called A Day at the Races, bet $1,000 on Chanceview. Cinemactress Simone Simon bet $2 on Grand Manitou. Paulette Goddard wore the black hat which she considers lucky. There were 13,000 cars in the 85-acre parking...
...supreme chief of the Order of the Quetzal, President Jorge Ubico of Guatemala awarded the Order's Grand Cross to King Victor Emanuel III of Italy, Premier Benito Mussolini, Presidents Albert Lebrun of France, Lin Sen of China, Maxmiliano Martinez of El Salvador, Tiburcio Carias Andino of Honduras, Leon Cortes of Costa Rica, Alfonso Lopez of Colombia, Anastasio Somoza of Nicaragua and Stenio Vincent of Haiti "for personal merits and friendship to Guatemala...