Word: granted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whom a major problem is escaping the charge that the failure of small community stores is a result of chain methods. As an answer to this accusation Dr. Julius Klein, Assistant Secretary of Commerce told the Association that most retail store keepers are grossly inefficient and W. T. Grant, head of a chain of 100 stores, declared that chains create new business and that the retailer should profit by chain store competition instead of going bankrupt...
...here where the Adamses, father and son, Jefferson, Monroe, Jackson, Grant, McKinley, Roosevelt and a score of other devoted men worked. Here worked Lincoln. It is a room crowded with memories of the courage and the high aspirations and the high accomplishments of the American presidents...
...Berlin an ambitious, shrewd sexagenarian last week asked the public insurance fund to pay for a Steinach reactivation operation upon him. His chief plea was that old age is a common ailment.* Astounded insurance executives fubbed off the old man's demands. To grant them would set a precedent which would upset all their mortality calculations...
...regional planning have been produced by the Harvard School of Landscape Architecture or written by those directly connected with it. The chief editor of City Planning, the official magazine of the profession, is Professor Henry Vincent Hubbard of the Faculty of Landscape Architecture at Harvard. Professor Hubbard received a grant last year from the Harvard Milton Fund for a field study of city, planning and zoning progress in the United States, the results of which will be published in a few weeks in a substantial volume entitled "Our Cities Today and Tomorrow," by T. K. and H. V. Hubbard...
...midnight, that allows him only one week-end leave each term, is repugnant to our independence. But if the accidents and casualties continue to increase we may have to accept it. Both of the prohibitions cited in the first paragraph were occasioned by specific disasters. We cannot afford to grant intellectual privileges to machines that hurt. Harvard Alumni Bulletin...