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Word: grands (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issue of TIME, your reporter erred in "Townsend Test" article when he states: "Chelan, a Main-Street town of 2,000 population perched high above the Columbia River, some 90 miles northeast of Grand Coulee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 15, 1937 | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

Chelan is situated at the outlet of Lake Chelan, about four miles west of Columbia River and about 90 miles (air line) southwest of Grand Coulee Dam, is about 1,200 feet above sea level. The general description your reporter gave of this beautiful eastern Washington pleasure resort and diversified farming district will prove very distasteful to many loyal Washingtonians who are aware of the regal beauties and productive resources abounding in Lake Chelan district (not in "broad Chelan Valley," because there is no valley in the district that has a width of more than 4 miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 15, 1937 | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

...that was tightly looped around the neck, hoisted the body high over the limb of a tree so that Editor Brown could make a more vivid camera record of 1937's No. 1 lynching.* At last week's end Henry County was buzzing with excitement. A special grand jury, on orders of Governor Bibb Graves, began taking testimony. Sheriff Corbitt, threatened with impeachment by Governor Graves, was quoted as saying he could and would name the owners of no less than 15 of the faces his sleepy eyes recognized in his bedroom. Nevertheless, the grand jury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: No. 1 | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

Actually, this grand effect derives from the dynamic possibilities of the material, which the producers of the film had the good sense to handle truthfully and artlessly. Asia, if not the darkest of the continents, is the greatest and the richest in mysterious meaning. These Frenchmen, traveling from Beirut to Pekin approximately along the route of Marco Polo, proceeds in business-like fashion, using powerful trucks with caterpillar treads in the rear, and yet they were ever sensitive to the appeal of the old and the unknown about them. There are moving shots of Oriental luxury and squalor as seen...

Author: By F. H. B., | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/12/1937 | See Source »

...have already shown, or rather suggested, Harvard has a history of which all Americans may be proud, and is an institution which reflects the highest credit on its parent state. It is not a very grand place when compared with Oxford or Cambridge, but then it is not fair to compare them. In the first place America is a young country; in the second place Harvard is not American in a large sense. Setting politics aside, America has no national institutions; it is a collection of proviness, each with museums, colleges, public libraries, and other institutions of its own. There...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Students Harmless as Doves, Comments Pall Mall Gazette in 1868 | 2/9/1937 | See Source »

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