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Word: grands (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resignation went a memorandum from Attorney General Cummings pointing out that Mr. Wideman had won ten of the eleven cases he argued last year before the Supreme Court. Although the case which he lost was the AAA decision, there came back a note: "This record of Wideman is grand! Congratulate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Young Men Switch | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

...first son born to Daniel Howell, Warrenton, Ga. blacksmith, was killed in the Civil War. Last week Blacksmith Howell's 22nd child was indicted by a Federal grand jury in Atlanta for misusing WPA funds. And Blacksmith Howell's 23rd and last offspring declared that the charge marked the beginning of a New Deal "reign of terror" in Georgia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Brothers Howell | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

...occasion last week was the 30th annual convention of the Memorial Craftsmen of America, an exposition only slightly disturbed by the fact that it occupied space in Manhattan's Grand Central Palace directly above the National Liquor Show. Besides the landscaped family plot, the girders of the building groaned beneath more than 500 tombstones, 700,000 Ib. of marble, bronze and granite. Secretary Roswell M. Austin of the Memorial Extension Commission announced that 1935 was the biggest year for the tombstone industry since Depression, that the average price of tombstones had risen from a Depression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Memorialists | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

...writes about the greasepaint dramatics of Broadway or the alcoholic hilarities of fabulous newshawks, at his middling worst he seems a dim shadow of O. Henry or Edgar Allan Poe. Best story in the book (Snowfall in Childhood) stands out like Shirley Temple on the stage of the Grand Guignol: a simply written reminiscence of first love. Some others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Slot Machine; Peephole | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

...diploma issued to Samuel Mather in 1701 by his grand uncle, Increase Mather, Harvard president and famous preacher, which is believed to be the second oldest Harvard diploma in existence, has been presented to the University by the Harvard Club of New York City in honor of the Tercentenary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SAMUEL MATHER'S DIPLOMA PRESENTED TO UNIVERSITY | 2/14/1936 | See Source »

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