Word: grave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Peanuts, seeds, and other vegetables in a remarkable state of preservation have been salvaged from the sepulchre and a small piece of hammered gold is the only metal the mummy had with it in the grave...
TIME of Feb. 28 prints an article about Grade Fields in which the following is stated: "Miss Fields last year received a reputed $750,000 for being both undignified and vulgar." The word vulgar constitutes a grave injury to Miss Fields, her friends and public in England, where she is greatly beloved as your article states. I am a great admirer of TIME and know that it does not intend an affront but in England the epithet used will have a different implication and will have an injurious result. I have received a protest from Miss Field's manager...
Stating that America under the New Deal is in grave danger of losing its liberal institutions, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. '08, in an address at the Union last night, urged the younger generation of today to fight for the preservation of the nation's democratic heritage...
Chairman Morgan: "During a long period I have repeatedly but unsuccessfully endeavored to secure the President's adequate consideration of grave conditions within the TVA. ... I am of the opinion that this meeting is not, and in the nature of the case cannot be, an effective or useful fact finding occasion." Pressed, the chairman snapped: "I am an observer and not a participant in this alleged process of fact finding...
Last summer Robert Paine Scripps suffered a throat hemorrhage shortly after he arrived in Honolulu aboard his trim ketch Novia Del Mar. Mr. Scripps, frail in his youth but strong in later years, confided to friends that he feared he would some day bleed to death. Last week that grave fear became a fearful fact. Stricken with another hemorrhage while his yacht rolled in Magdalena Bay, Lower California, Robert Scripps died...