Word: grave
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Modern skeptics, of course, paid no attention. But the great historian, Plutarch, would not have failed to record it as an event possibly of grave significance to the state...
...bearings. That is what President Hoover will do on Prohibition. In the campaign, voters asked him what his position was, what his plans were. Not sure himself, he replied: "I do not favor the repeal of the 18th Amendment. I stand for the efficient enforcement of the law. . . . Grave abuses have occurred. An organized searching investigation of fact and causes can alone determine the wise method of correcting them." Congress last week voted $250,000 "for such inquiry into the problem of law enforcement, including national prohibition, as the President may direct...
...Commerce, with the Secretaries of State and Labor, constituted a special commission to report the scientists' findings. This report said: "Although this is the best information we have been able to secure, we wish to. . .state that in our opinion the statistical and historical information available raises grave doubts as to the whole value of these computations...
...Eaton quoted Herbert Hoover ("The surer forces of human advancement") ; Scott ("Now is the stately column broke"); Holmes ("Build thee more stately mansions"). He discussed the "mystery and majesty of the grave" and "Death, the universal leveler." In conclusion...
...feet five inches tall is a certain grave, punctilious gentleman who was lolling at full length, one evening last week, in an aisle seat of a theatre at Cannes, smartest resort on the French Riviera...