Word: grave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese broadcast: "The situation in our beloved Italy is extremely grave...
...British admiral's son who has spent much of his scientific life investigating savages in the New Hebrides, Zoologist Baker believes that scientists are in grave danger of being regimented into total sanity. An arch-individualist, he holds that scientists must have complete freedom of inquiry. In support of his theory that most great scientists have been rather odd, and many of their discoveries the result of accident rather than planning, he presents some persuasive evidence...
...patted Soviet Russia: "We nourish the warmest feelings of fellowship toward the valiant Russian people, with whom we have made a twenty years' treaty of friendship and mutual aid." That was all. For the united future of the U.S. and Britain, the Prime Minister's hopes were grave...
...when he died, could remember the diamonds in the eyes of his bulldog stickpin, and how she hid her dolls under the covers and made Father sit on a chair, so he would not sit on the dolls when he came to say goodnight. He took everything to the grave with him-money (he had signed too many notes), friends, family standing, a way of life and a certain knowledge of how to meet...
...nearby Lynchburg the sod was fresh on the grave of William G. Suhling, former captain-elect of Virginia's football team, Marine volunteer killed in California flight training. Also dead were former football captains John Acree (killed in Pacific naval action), Lewis G. Reiss (killed in Army flight training), 57 other fighting alumni...