Word: grave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marshal," returned the grave, bearded Justice, "remove that woman from the courtroom...
...have been accorded by British Royalty special honors and the Nizam now has the official status of "Faithful Ally." This gracefully implies that his exalted highness is not so much the inferior as the colleague of His Majesty the Emperor of India - and, during the World War, the dry, grave "Richest Man in the World" contributed to Britain some $100,000,000 cash plus untold supplies and Hyderabad army units...
...State of Hyderabad, "Heart of the Indian Peninsula," occupies the centre of the continental lobe. Unusually fertile and desert free, it is dotted with artificial lakes and storage reservoirs, has no sea-coast-a grave disadvantage-but is well watered by a system of rivers on which float many a quaint coracle. The district drains eastward into the Bay of Bengal...
...strictly perfect Constitutional monarch, dwelling almost entirely in moated Tokyo Palace grounds, and never known to have kicked over the traces is Japanese Emperor Hirohito. Last week His Majesty, the impassive, bespectacled, studious Son-Of-Heaven who had just weathered a grave Cabinet crisis (TIME, Feb. 8), donned medieval court costume and pre- sided in the Palace of his ancestors over nationwide celebrations to mark the 2,597th anniversary of his Imperial Dynasty...
...Harvard Glee Club rather than for the informal singing that the Instrumental Clubs provide. Currently, came the shift of taste from banjo and mandolin to violin, 'cello, flute, and the like, a shift which has prospered the Pierian Sodality, but has laid the banjo and mandolin clubs in the grave. Couple all this with waning undergraduate support, which culminated in calling off the last two Christmas trips, and hard times are the inevitable result...