Word: grave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this grave face is written the sorrow of an empire but also the grim determination and courage to fight through to final victory...
John Garner stepped close, rattled off the oath to grave Henry Wallace. In a voice that reached to Iowa, Mr. Wallace said: "I do," and was Vice President. Now the plaza became really still. Mr. Roosevelt moved forward. The Chief Justice had jerked off his skullcap. Mr. Hughes stated the oath and the President repeated the worn, full, old words: "I, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States...
...mind, and with old-school-tie men this was instinctive and part of their philosophy of life. These new officers will be just as brave and technically efficient, but they have been reared in an atmosphere in which the State spoon-feeds everybody from the cradle to the grave and no one feels any responsibility for his fellowmen...
...morning to establish a record of 367 days in session, recessed for 15 minutes, then flowed augustly on. As Garner, stammering occasionally and looking lonely and uncomfortable in his striped trousers and cutaway coat, put the Senate through its routine opening paces, the atmosphere was staid and grave. Senators elected and re-elected in November filed up to the rostrum in groups of four to be sworn in, each escorted by his State colleague. Only Hiram Johnson preferred to walk alone...
...Rosella Carroll, 14, test tubes and microscopes were the most fascinating things in the world. Studying science at Bethlehem Academy in Faribault, Minn., her grave, shining brown eyes seldom missed a trick. Rosella was pious, too, and she intended to enter the Catholic sisterhood. But she knew that in this day and age a nun could be a scientist, if she were smart as well as conscientious...