Word: grave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...told of going to a Prague dinner party and finding his fellow guests carrying gas masks, the effect was one unattainable in written journalism. Equally stirring was the account of the Czech mobilization from the New York Herald Tribune's Walter B. Kerr. As Mr. Kerr spoke his grave words, offstage noise was made by the drone of gathering airplanes...
...challenge presented to you by the Williams of 1938 is whether you can live up to these educational opportunities. It is indeed a grave challenge, for you must not allow the many foibles of college life to prevent you from concentrating on your academic work. You must not let the calibre of the undergraduate body be surpassed by that of the faculty. You must not fail to understand the implications of the point so superbly stated to you this summer by Dr. Baxter when he said, "Shocking as is the paradox of poverty amid abundance, of millions in want...
Ominous was the atmosphere of official Washington on the evening last week when President Roosevelt's train rolled into Union Station from the West. Secretary of State Hull, looking grave as granite, stepped aboard before it had stopped rolling. Behind the Secretary of State followed the Secretary...
...Federal District judges of the U. S. went back to school last winter. So did a great many U. S. lawyers. For by an order of Congress issued in 1934, the Supreme Court of the U. S. had rewritten the rules under which the grave game of civil justice shall be played in the Federal District Courts. Last December, Chief Justice Hughes reported the new rules (with Justice Brandeis dissenting) to the Attorney General, who in January reported them to Congress, which published them. Last week they became effective. Lawyers agreed with Attorney General Cummings when he described them...
When he died of typhus in 1791, he was impoverished, all but friendless. He was buried in an unmarked pauper's grave, since lost...