Word: grave
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...military situation on the Western Front is grave and is likely to continue grave for some weeks to come. The German attack in France aims at cutting the British lines of communication and thereby isolating Haig's army, by breaking the line Amiens-Havre, and perhaps subsequently the line Abbeville-Havre. The operations on both sides raise many questions that it is not advisable to debate at the present juncture. There are two minor points, however, that I will venture to indicate...
...grave member of the Faculty asked why, after everything had been going on so well for 80 years, now everything should be suddenly changed...
...answer Dr.--'s question very easily,' said the bland, grave young man. 'There's a new President...
...Government to act. The forceful parts of the report are those upholding the right and the advantage of public discussion of the objects of a war and the methods of conducting it, and pointing out the weakness of persecution as a "means for extirpating or repressing honest error, however grave and dangerous the error may be." The report condemns the dismissal of "a distinguished man of science," meaning Professor Cattell, as involving "a disregard of all the essential distinctions" upon which the report insists. --New York Evening Post
...same trait in other men must bring widespread approval. Just as in studies or in outside activities, Meeker sought to act on noblest principles, so finally he sacrificed himself, following that path his conscience pointed out. To honor one who did his best even though it led to the grave this scholarship is established...