Word: granted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...teachers and officers of administration, and finally, the pupils or students are so related to each other that they share mutually in the conduct of all the major as well as the minor activities of the school." And later he continues, "In some way, by constitutional or by formal grant of power from the legal bodies, authority must be transferred to the resident academic community, if they are to enjoy that liberty which belongs to a democratic state or industry. Boards of lay trustees must be entirely dispensed with or come to be regarded, and to function, as mere fiduciary...
...Grant Mitchell to the long list of things which you either like or don't. And if you like Grant you will like "One of the Family," the current attraction at the Wilbur., for this latest play of his is like all the others that we have ever seen him in. He is as good--or as bad--as ever; the comedy is likewise as good or etc.; and the supporting cast performs in much the same way that Grant Mitchell's casts usually...
...servant who has been with the family so long that she has become, not a servant, but a retainer, fairly runs away with the show. The other, Frank Owens, nee Fleming Ward, adds the other true touch by playing the victim in the fight scene an inevitable scene in Grant Mitchell's procrustean and as such reappearing on the stage to explain how it all happened, at the same time spraying the footlights with loosened teeth...
...active head of the army. In time of a great crisis such as the Civil War or World War, a General may be appointed by the President (with the Senate's approval) to the supreme command. The following have held the rank of General: George Washington, Ulysses Hiram Grant (or Ulysses Simpson Grant [see p. 6]). William Tecumseh Sherman, Philip Henry Sheridan, John Joseph Pershing, Tasker Howard Bliss, Peyton Conway March...
...Coach Horween the other day, and I said, "Arnie," and that's the way I am, calling him Arnie the first thing just to make him feel at home. The Forecasts have always been like that. Way back in the darkest hours of the Civil War when General Grant came out of the West to take command of the Union army, who was the one man, the only man in that vast throng of blue-coated soldiery to greet the lonely general with a friendly, "Hello, Ulysses old horse! Good luck!" Who was it, I repeat? It was my grandfather...