The Senate book, Volume 3, begins with a 100-page history of the Senate, starting with Calhoun and Webster, because Caro felt that to understand the Senate you needed to see it in its great period.
"It is important of course in its great generosity but also in its timing, because the hard truth is that funding for graduate studies is one of the biggest challenges facing research-intensive universities like Oxford.
Among rugby watchers in North America and abroad, debate continues about his potential – and what it says about rugby's potential for growth in its great lost continent.
Note how it starts by reaffirming McDavid's guilt, and then avoids admitting any wrongdoing by saying that the government agreed, in its great magnanimity, that others might come to the conclusion that it had seriously screwed the pooch.
The history of Florence in its great period is a history of innovations.
Not completely, perhaps, but Canada is still disoriented by changes in its great white north.
"Portugal has succeeded in its great aim," said Ronaldo, the man of the match.
The criminal case is just one more story in its great US collage.
When the United States wins another action in its great war against Texas Guinan, bulletins flash to every remote hamlet.
I envied him his command of French; Le Monde, in its great days, was his preferred newspaper.
In its great hall with the heat on and the air-conditioning off, Mike Tyson perspired briefly.
