Word: grave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three Regents whose names were extracted from the envelope one was dead and the Barlman did not share the liking of the late King Fuad for the other two, promptly voted to appoint three entirely different Regents. These grave dignitaries have performed their stewardship well. Last week in the Barlman the powers they have exercised were turned over to Farouk I in a simple ceremony of oath-taking like that by which a President is sworn in at Washington. Swore His Majesty upon the sacred Koran last week, with alert U. S. Minister to Egypt Bert Fish listening...
...French artillery, worked in various laboratories in France and England. In 1932 he joined Eldorado Mines, supervising the transportation and installation of all equipment for the Canadian refining plant. Marcel Pochon speaks fairly good English with a strong accent, wears modish clothes, tells humorous frontier anecdotes with a grave face...
Into Oxford's old Sheldonian Theatre to be welcomed by Oxford's doughty Yorkshire Chancellor, Lord Halifax, last week filed 800 grave churchmen from every part of the globe. They had come for a World Conference on Church. & State, first big international and interdenominational meeting of the churches since the Stock, holm Conference of 1925. As at Stockholm, there were no Roman Catholic delegates, and their absence was duly lamented in a welcoming speech by His Grace, the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. Then the Archbishop's onetime dean, the Bishop of Chichester, told the gathering that Bishop...
this was a good deal more than most British or French editors cared to swallow and their tart comments made Adolf Hitler angrier still, as the Government of His Britannic Majesty learned with grave concern. King George VI was so worried that harassed Anthony Eden was kept reporting constantly in person at Buckingham Palace...
There remained, however, one grave doubt about Dr. Stanley's work. Did his chemical treatment of viruses alter them? The Rockefeller staff had the answer to that. But they waited until last week when the summer meeting of the A. A. A. S. at Denver (see p. 40) again gave them a big, public stage...