Word: grands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...detestation of this particular type of crime. He should have denounced piracy in the South Seas but not election thievery in Missouri. He should have exhibited indifference. He should have been lukewarm in his charge. He should have softpedaled the matter. He should have said: " 'Gentlemen of the grand jury: everybody's doing it; let it pass.' " So said Federal Judge Merrill E. Otis last week in Kansas City. He also overruled demurrers to a set of indictments and prepared the way for the beginning this week of a trial that has already shaken the concrete foundations...
...years between divide the Senior from the Freshman like a grand canyon, sometimes. Until a day or two ago we didn't realize how ripe and mellow, free from care and worry, three years and odd months at Harvard can make a fellow. With our thesis half completed and a ticket on the Monarch of Bermuda in the drawer, life was nothing but a brave new world of dreams. Yet suddenly a tale of horror struck a note of tragedy into our symphony of pleasure, stark tragedy crashed mightily about our cars...
...remake Spain into a close approximation of the Italian Fascist Corporative State as set up and run by Il Duce. He answered in the negative Mr. Howard's question whether he is a Free Mason, adding a blanket disclaimer that his Whites have anything to do with the Grand Orient. Franco affirmed that his Government would negotiate a concordat with the Vatican, insuring that Spain remain Catholic. He refused to answer whether he would support restoration of the Monarchy, refused to guess when Madrid might be captured. On the historic Spanish question of Catalonia, always violently separatist, the Generalissimo...
Last week News-Week's investors found their ample original treasury, plus subsequent investments to a grand sum total of $2,250,000, completely wiped out. Although their magazine had 250,000 circulation, it was not paying its way, needed yet more funds to continue...
...anything else. So avidly did he pursue his rakehell career that it seems a miracle he had any energy left for writing, that he lasted as long as he did (38 years). Pushkin was born into the old nobility, but he also had black blood: his maternal great-great-grand father was an Abyssinian ras. Pushkin's parents were social, impecunious, improvident. They paid little attention to their swart, stocky son, left him in the haphazard hands of tutors. Pushkin's real educator was his nurse Arina, who filled him full of folklore...