Word: grave
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...family are respected and deference is paid to his opinions on all sorts of subjects. 7. It is fairly well paid; minimum net salary about $3,000 in most (Episcopal) dioceses. 8. It has permanence of tenure; clergymen (Episcopal) need not fear losing their appointments except for grave cause. 9. 'The clergy are exempt from being drafted for war.' Also they often get ten per cent discount on merchandise and they travel for half-fare on the railroads. 10. 'They are so favored by the kindly attention of wealthy and leading parishioners that their children enter...
French hopes that she will offer to do so were voiced, last week, by M. Briand: "This problem of peace should be linked up with that of reparations, and I hope that the year 1928 will not close without a settlement of the grave question as a whole." Expression of such "hopes" amounts to giving notice that the whole structure of interallied debts and German reparations must shortly be readjusted. That is the view of Agent General of Reparations Seymour Parker Gilbert, who has recently conveyed his conclusions to the Cabinets at Washington, London, Paris and Berlin (TIME...
...some sporting columnist ten inches of copy: The truly unfortunate part of the attack is not that it discovers in track a sport that has pushed football out of the cellar position in the academic pennant race, even though such discovery may prove a hardship to many article writers. Grave astonishment is the natural reaction to the unsportsmanlike conduct of the Carnegie Institute. The athlete, helpless under what has been called "the dumbing influence of athletics", is struck down with an adding machine and his body run over by the juggernaut of the intelligence quotient. He cannot answer his assailants...
From the thrush throat of Leader Bennett loomed more compliments, then a sturdy statement, a promise: "By my election to an office that has statutory recognition as part of the machinery of Parliament and of government, I recognize that I have assumed grave responsibilities. ... I shall do my very best...
Apparently a truism, President Lowell's statement assumes the pale glimmer of the half-truth under critical inspection. The fashionable institutions, according to his speech, may survive for some time because of their reputations, but unless they approach the educational merits offered by their rivals, they will fall into grave danger. All of which sounds well, but means little. Being president of one of our foremost exclusive universities, Mr. Lowell is in a position to make such a statement without laying himself open to accusations of envy and pride, but we wonder if he has any very clear idea...