Word: grave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pompous Senator George, on whom all clothes look formal, is a grey, humorless, urbane man. He will preside over the committee's deliberations during the grave days that lie ahead. Franklin Roosevelt will be forced to deal directly, week after week, with the man he tried to purge from the Senate in 1938. No one accuses Senator George of being vengeful; but neither is he forgetful...
...disaster at Lat. 52° N., Long. 32° W. put a gloomy crown upon several weeks of increasingly grave inroads into British shipping. Obscured by the dramatic aerial Battle of Britain, in which the R. A. F. brilliantly held its own, the Axis counter-blockade against Britain began to press in late September, after the Nazis got submarine bases working along the long coast line they took from France in June. Startling was the official British admission last fortnight of 146,528 tons (plus 51,502 neutral tons) lost in the week ended Oct. 21. That disastrous week...
From Berlin came word that Nazis had permitted grave, shy Irène Joliot-Curie, Nobel Prizewinning daughter and image of the late, great Marie Curie, to return to the Paris Radium Institute, resume her experiments in artificial radioactivity...
...issue before the colleges is thus squarely put by President Seymour's proposal. Either they should accept his grave view of the situation and gear themselves to a permanent program of military training, or they should accept the operation of the draft in the normal course of events and not change their program at all. In any event, a compromise is useless. A superficial course of lectures will aid no one and merely serves to divert the University's attention from the basic problems of why the war is fought to the mechanical details of how it is fought...
Modestly, the Exiled Writers Committee disclaimed all but a small share in Feuchtwanger's getaway. In the escape of other writers the Exiled Writers Committee was only too ready to claim a share. Such were grave Heinrich Mann (Thomas' brother and author of more than a dozen novels) and Franz Werfel (The Forty Days of Musa Dagh). As they bumped over the rough autumn waves from Lisbon a few weeks ago, the two novelists hugged themselves over their narrow escape from the Nazis. One day out from...