Word: grave
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...necessary to point out that the hard-won and none too stable peace of Europe is in grave danger as long as the Germans are allowed to keep such a formidable army. Immediate action by the Allies will put a stop to the budding menace. Every effort must be made to keep the Treaty of Versailles from becoming a second Peace of Tilsit...
...mere outsider it would seem as if the situation in Italy were grave, to say the least. The Italian Socialists, who are a frankly revolutionary body, and who have always opposed annexation of the eastern shore of the Adriatic, are said to have won 150 out of 508 seats in the recent elections. But in spite of this, Gabriele d'Annunzio seems to be able to do what he likes with the army, whether the government likes it or not. To a more outsider it would seem a poor time for an Italian Premier to rail at Italy's allies...
...Republican Senators thought they had the Treaty safely in its grave, they must be exceedingly surprised to find the supposed corpse very much alive and kicking. The gentlemen of the Upper House could not have seriously believed that the country would let them commit their crime without molestation. The fury of indignation that has swept not only America, but the whole world--except Germany, of course--cannot have startled them much; or if it did, it does not speak; well for their intelligence...
Patriots may well view with alarm the break in the National Industrial Conference at Washington. It is an event of grave moment in American affairs and may not be dismissed with a word and a hope. Labor has withdrawn from the conference muttering; the representatives of the public seem to side with labor; capital sits tight; and the country waits to see how badly it is to be ground between the upper and the nether millstones...
...grave mistake to prohibit entirely immigration to the United States," was the recent declaration of Professor Robert F. Foerster '06, assistant professor of Social Ethics in the University, whose book on "The Italian Emigration of Our Time" has just been published by the University Press...