Word: grands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your issue of March 18, you give a partial list of municipal defaults and near defaults. You will excuse, I am sure, my honest offense at your neglect of the Grand Old State of Arkansas...
...problem is to find occupation for them which is socially useful, yet does not compete with private business. Two winters ago the nation had a sample of the lengths to which relief administrators may be driven by such a puzzle when CWA paid educated men & women to produce grand opera in the Ozarks, study the Relation of Fascism to Women's Education, make dolls out of old inner tubes, translate German manuscripts on plant diseases, write poems inside a 900-word vocabulary, The nation tolerantly lumped all such doings under the head of "just raking leaves back & forth...
...Herbert has received from the U. S. the Distinguished Service Order, from Japan the Order of the Rising Sun and a hatful of European decorations including the Cross of the Legion of Honor and from George V the accolade of knighthood with the Grand Cross of the Order of The Bath...
...Aintree, two horses came to the last fence together, Thomond II got over first but faltered as he landed. Reynoldstown cleared neatly. In that moment, the result of the Grand National was decided. The Whitney horse, a flat racer trained to jump but lacking the stamina of a born steeplechaser, slowed down so badly that Lady Lindsay's Blue Prince, at 40-to-1. passed him in the stretch and took second place by three lengths...
Major Noel Furlong's Reynoldstown, a big black steeplechaser, bred by his modestly well-to-do owner in Ireland, was ridden by Major Furlong's son, a onetime officer in the Ninth Lancers, who finished second in the Grand National of 1933. In need of the ,?6.570 first prize for his forthcoming wedding, Gentleman Jockey Frank Furlong galloped strongly through the last heart-breaking uphill 300 yards. At the finish, Reynoldstown was first by three lengths. Said Frank Furlong: "I don't know...