Word: granting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rest of the backfield squad is made up of F. S. Grant Jr. '29, G. L. Graves '31, A. W. Huguley '31, G. C. Holbrook '30, and T. G. Moore '29, all capable and mostly experienced material Graves has been doing particularly well so far this fall. He is a short stocky back with plenty of speed and fight, the type that makes a yard or so after he has been hit from all sides. He needs experience but otherwise should make trouble for opposing linemen this fall. Holbrook was among the most promising of last year's new material...
State of Manhattan. Alan Grant Ogilvie, Reader in Geography at the University of Edinburgh, only child of Sir Francis Grant Ogilvie (chairman of the British Geological Survey Board), took New York City as the illustration of what can happen to a district happily situated geographically. New York's tides fluctuate only four to five feet.* That helps shipping. The terrain changes practically not at all. Travel routes naturally converge toward the city. He recommended that the States of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut cede land for the formation of a State of Manhattan. The natural Manhattan area...
...Amanda Dent of Carthage, Mo., aged 97, sister-in-law of President Grant's wife. Reason: impressed by the Hoover acceptance speech...
...discomfort of last week's heat, the report on the relation between weather and crime, made by Dr. Edwin Grant Dexter, to the National Probation Society, received national attention. Dr. Dexter analyzed the 12-year police and weather statistics of New York and Denver. His conclusions...
George M. Cohan's list this year includes Ring Lardner's frequently re-christened Elmer the Great. Aside from that, it is made up of a musical comedy by himself, and a play for Grant Mitchell and one by and for the Nugents...