Word: grave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deep Purple. The migraine that Ed Flynn has is almost enough to fracture his skull. None of it is of his own making. But the problems that face the Democratic Party in the 1942 elections are many and grave...
...provided its scrap-news oddity. In Newton, Mass., Siamese Cat Champion Chinky died and left 25 lb. of metal cups and badges to the local campaign. A woman in Cohoes, N.Y. donated an iron bench she used to sit on beside her Spanish-American War veteran husband's grave. The old cruiser Olympia, flagship to Admiral Dewey at Manila and bearer in 1921 of the body of the Unknown Soldier, started to have her 5,865 tons reduced to scrap...
...richest men in the world and one of the most progressive of India's 562 princely rulers, the young (34) Maharaja (19 guns) flew from his province of Indore to Karachi en route to the U.S. He left to visit his sick wife and because of his own "grave reasons of health," the British Raj contended. But Indians put two and two together...
...council's impartial report, dictated as it was by a close vote, nevertheless leaves the undergraduate voiceless in a question of grave concern to the value of their educations. The faculty now holds the right and duty of making the eventual decisions, but the airing by students of their needs and desires is imperative. "Three-term" versus "Summer Session" must be debated and decisions formulated. An academic year which neglects the student outlook is foredoomed to failure...
...high command is largely a collection of befuddled old land-going, deck-tramping gentlemen peering in grave concern at a darkening sky, pathetically wondering what...