Word: grave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cast us not away in time of stress). The President's old friend and Groton schoolmaster, the Rev. Dr. Endicott Peabody, 86, led three other ministers in asking divine help for "Thy servant, Franklin". . . and to "save us from all false choices." The President's face was grave...
Your Music editor has made a grave error. Bidu Sayao (TIME, Feb. 14) is not the Metropolitan Opera's best Mimi. Grace Moore...
...warned: Unless draft boards ease up on agricultural workers, U.S. food production will suffer. Said the President: "We are well equipped in food and munitions but their production has drawn overheavily on our stock of manpower. It is time to strike a new balance. . . . The present situation is so grave...
...once tightened and loosened the bonds of Empire. Sovereign, national aims conflict in Canada with a never-dying tie to Britain. Aspirations both regional and national stir New Zealand and Australia. South Africa's great Prime Minister, Field Marshal and Elder Statesman Jan Christiaan Smuts, feels grave responsibility both for Imperial Britain and for the independent integrity of his own country. India, the jewel of Empire, strains away from Empire, yet gives (or sells) men and wealth for Britain's fight...
Iron mines had either been blown up or flooded. In the old Artem mine, 500 Russian workers hid. When the Germans discovered the hideout, they flung hand grenades in but would not descend. Moscow said another mine was the common grave of 17,000 executed civilians...