Word: grave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those who express grave concern about the future of the country if the liberal arts were destroyed are entirely right. For there can be no question that the basis of a free society is the education which that society provides. But surely the problem is much broader than the kind of curriculum and the size of the student body of our colleges in the years of war. The problem concerns the general education of young men and women at both the school and college level...
Bell's seven fundamentals: 1) the things which matter most are beyond the power of the grave to destroy; 2) all men are made to live for one another in a mutually sacrificing sociality; 3) servants are literally more pleasing to God than masters; 4) only a fire of self-effacement can bring happiness to mankind; 5) the task of world improvement should not be left to future generations; 6) children are the most important people in the world and the Church should educate them; 7) it is immoral to lay up riches to buy exemption from productive labor...
These English books, models of the quiet modesty lacking in many U.S. I-saw-it-happeners, deal with the grave and sinister, but little publicized, warfare in the North Atlantic...
...make the most-needed he-man speech on foreign policy that has been heard from either floor of the House since the war began. . . . Representative Luce is so famed for pulchritude, chic, wit and wisecracking that these got the headlines instead of the sound doctrines expounded and the grave warnings sounded. 'Glamorous' was the word her listeners thought of: not 'How damn true.' " Assistant Secretary of State Adolf A. Berle Jr. informed the House Foreign Affairs Committee that a committee of Army, Navy and CAB bigwigs had been studying the problem for months. Said he: American...
They must also wander around neighboring vacant lots plotting grave yards, practice grave registration, and have make-believe sessions of hospital visitation. These are duties which help a civilian minister to get himself oriented with his new tasks in the army...