Word: grave
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Comment: Quite inadequate, because "the U.S. has in the past . . . treated our foreign trade as though it were of no legitimate concern to anyone but ourselves." Unless Congress shows it has changed its attitude, this point "will be received with grave and warranted skepticism...
LONDON, Thursday--The German capture of Orel, 210 miles south of Moscow, and a semi-official appeal from Russia for British help caused grave anxiety today over the turn of events on the Eastern Front...
...This village, which is called Ushakovo, has lost one of its three dimensions. Now it has only length and breadth; there are no vertical elements save a couple of gateposts and a small wooden obelisk on a mass grave...
...Upon the mound, fenced in by evergreens and topped by a silver star, is a grave-a common grave for those who died in this place in the struggle against German Fascism, July 29-Sept...
Chicago had pitched its celebration on a deliberately optimistic note-but not without grave philosophical headshakings. It gathered scores of eminent scholars to report their explorations (see pp. 68 & 73) on the frontiers of science and philosophy -frontiers from Jerusalem to Buenos Aires. Richard Henry Tawney, professor of economic history at the University of London, flew to the meeting by Clipper and plane. From the University of Buenos Aires came Philologist Amada Alonso; from the Catholic Institute of Paris, famed Philosopher Jacques Maritain. In the gathering were 150 college and university presidents. A symposium on the place of ethics...