Word: grave
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...draw away a Confederate and a Union flag from the towering figure of Lee on his favorite warhorse, "Traveler," another New Yorker had been taken to Atlanta. This was small, grave, smooth-cheeked Robert Edward Lee IV, aged 5, whom everyone asks if he is going to be a soldier like his great-grandfather when he grows...
Private secretary to the Governor of a sovereign State is a position fraught with grave responsibilities. Captain Herman A. MacDonald of Boston has been finding this out lately. Capt. MacDonald is secretary to Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller of Massachusetts. Last month, feeling facetious, Secretary MacDonald wrote and published a letter in which he called a fellow citizen a "Mexican General." The Mexican Consul at Boston took this as a national insult and demanded an apology from Governor Fuller (TIME, April...
...second laurel wreath was placed upon the grave of Dürer, in St. John...
...sufferers repeatedly. The bacteriophage feeds on the living matter to which it is accustomed. Therefore the cultures in the wells ate up all the cholera organisms, purifying the drinking water; the cultures administered by mouth destroyed all the cholera germs in the intestines, healing the sick. Even in grave cases where the patients were already moribund the mortality was cut down phenomenally. Sixty-two per cent of the cases that were not treated died, whereas only 8 per cent of the treated cases succumbed...
Thirteen of those 15 grave men who have been directing the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. to crescent prosperity last week made themselves comfortable in the directors' room of the company's Manhattan suite and, having digested the predigested reports of the road's efficacy during the past year, made a decision which they knew would be pleasing to their stockholders who are to meet at Topeka, Kan., the last Thursday of this month...