Word: grave
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...incredibly ungenerous policy on the part of the military authorities, especially when the victims are advanced in years and of a class unused to the kind of work imposed on them, and that such ungenerous treatment must, when it becomes generally known at the end of the war, bring grave discredit on those responsible for it." They got their discharge...
With the increasing belief in individual treatment of each problem, a belief admirably demonstrated, in criminal cases at least, by Professor Glueck's studies, a grave question is raised on the matter of methods in legal training. If a lawyer in presenting a case and a judge in passing judgment on it, must obey the monistic theory now so favorably regarded, it is doubtful whether the case-system and the methods which it implies, is a satisfactory medium of approach...
...Administration is apparently going ahead with its attempt to restore prosperity by egregious expenditure. It is said glibly that this puts the burden on the taxpayer of the future. Beyond very grave doubts whether any expenditure can be transferred to the future for payment, the amount of deficit that the country can stand now is of some concern. Everyone is agreed that there is a limit. Scales have been broken heretofore by being overweighted. We should realize that the abstract definition of the lexicon, "equilibrium, steadiness, stability" is there because it has concrete, practical applications...
...California's Hiram Johnson was led to predict that the questions of Oriental immigration into the U. S. and Oriental tenure of U. S. land might some day be submitted to the Court for a decision. Calling the voice of the No. 1 Irreconcilable of 1919 from the grave, Hearstpapers got Grandson Henry Cabot Lodge to announce : "Another attempt is now under way to make us the whipping boy of Europe by joining the League Court. . . ." All this outcry sold newspapers and presumably whipped Hearstreaders into a mild frenzy of fear and protest. With that any ordinary publisher would...
...promise nor even of a threat which their consciences or University Hall would drive them to abide by. To be sure, some courses, such as History 1 might include only a convenient fraction of the requirement so that the first shock of reading the list might not have too grave an effect on prospective members...