Word: granting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Abraham Lincoln currently command top market prices-$125 and up-for holograph letters by U.S. Presidents, the weekly Antiquarian Bookman announced. A Herbert Hoover draws about the same as a George Washington ($100 up). Calvin Coolidge and Woodrow Wilson rate around $35 each; Ulysses S. Grant and Theodore Roosevelt, $10. A genuine pre-1945 Harry Truman goes at around $50 the holograph, neck & neck with a genuine Warren G. Harding...
...obvious that slender (148 Ibs.) Dave Freeman was no classic stylist. His smash was somewhat less than devastating, his wrist-flick deception shots not the game's most subtle or varied. But like Bitsy Grant, the once-mighty mite of tennis, he made incredible gets. His knees were always scratched and bloody after a tough match...
Infantry on Horseback. His eleven generals (not necessarily the best), from the Revolution's Nathanael Greene to Omar Bradley, include several that few readers ever heard of, e.g., Indian Fighter Richard Mentor Johnson and Grant's divisional commander, James Harrison Wilson. Each, says Pratt, operated on the simple basis that "nobody is going to win a battle until somebody goes in there on foot and wins it with a hand...
...grant from the Radcliffe Student Council and $50 from the Harvard Liberal Union put the Annex freshmen within $200 of their $1500 May 1 goal in their drive to bring a DP student to Cambridge next year...
...this aid to education are reasonably confident that the House and Senate will agree with the measure, they are also understandably nervous. For the last 30 years, the national legislature has consistently batted down so-called "general-aid" education bills, although it has approved such specific programs as land-grant colleges and funds for vocational training...