Word: grave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sons now in U.S. service. Brother Kermit is a major in the British Army; Brother Archibald (disabled by wounds in 1918 as a captain in the 26th) is at his bond business in Wall Street; Brother Quentin (the family's only flying officer) in a hero's grave in France. Young T. R.'s son, 21-year-old Harvardman Quentin, goes into service in June as an Army lieutenant...
Harvard crew shirts at M.I.T. are as highly regarded by the Engineers as the brand new Pocock shells they row in, and after this afternoon's Rowe Memorial Regatta, there is a very grave chance that some of the Scarlet and Gray sweep swingers will have something better than, gray sweatshirts in which to work...
Envoy. The man who made the Greenland deal possible was Henrik de Kauffmann, 52. When the Nazis seized Denmark last year, Minister de Kauffmann sat tight in the modest little Danish Legation on Washington's Massachusetts Avenue. Slight, dapper, greying and grave-faced, he let his staff know that he intended to represent his country's interests, regardless of Nazi-inspired orders from Copenhagen or Berlin. He was ordered to cooperate with the German charge d'affaires. He did not. When the U.S. seized 39 Danish ships, he did not protest, arranged their transfer...
...British are concerned, General Wavell has infused new life into the practice. He captured Cheren after a seven-week siege by flying to the spot, seeing for himself a valley which threatened the Italian rear, and ordering it occupied. Last week's grave losses suggested that the practice is more fortunate in advance than in withdrawal...
Meanwhile, the Big Man's march and the Little Men's grab raised grave alarm among the two great neutrals bordering on those events...