Word: granting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...should not the varietry share it? Life with all its experiences means as much to it as to the more effete sophisticates. If these new periodicals flash a bit of light into the deadly village dullness or provide a vicarious escape for a dry goods clerk one must grant them some justification...
...General Grant. The General's notorious fondness for tobacco and whisky was emphasized. He smoked a cigar having an odor like that of burning cotton. He wilted, however, before Lee, who entered and surrendered with the air of a conqueror...
...Kentucky-banker grandfather, Robert Todd. He took after his impetuous, affectionate fault-finding mother. He attended the Illinois Industrial School at Urbana (later the University of Illinois) and was sent east to Phillips Exeter Academy. He entered Harvard Law School but left to become a captain on General Grant's staff. He was present at the fall of Petersburg and at Appomattox, whence he returned the day before his father's assassination. He was in the Ford Theatre box that night...
...Antevs, under a grant from the Shaler Memorial Fund for Research in Geology, has been investigating the glacial deposits of eastern North America. Previous to this Dr. Antevs made extensive research connected with the glacial deposits of Europe. Many of the results of these studies will be incorporated in his lectures...
...Major U. S. Grant 3rd,* Army officer in charge of public buildings in the Capital, reported to the House Appropriations Committee that the roof of the White House has settled since 1912, when it was repaired, that the trusses supporting it have slipped and that much of its weight now rests on interior partitions. He said the roof should be repaired and the attic rebuilt, but it would cost $500,000 and the President did not approve of the expenditure at present...