Word: grave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...debate no subject was more fully argued, more carefully considered, than the manner of election and the term of office of the Chief Executive. To men who had suffered under monarchy the question of rotation in high office was desperately real, its solution a matter of counsel as grave as prayer. For three days in June, for five days in July, the delegates debated their jealousy of Executive power, a jealousy whose roots ran far back into the American past...
...women, a demoniacal Kaiser, he now pictured the forces of the world in abstract, often obvious, images. Churchill was a bluff skipper, Stalin a leering Satan, Hitler a skeleton, the U. S. Isolationist something like a village idiot. A devout Roman Catholic, Raemaekers seemed increasingly preoccupied with the lonely, grave figure of Jesus wandering through the world...
...written in hemorrhages, written in sickness, written torn by coughing, written when my head swam for weakness. . . ." Yet always his work grew better, for mental activity and creative power often increase with the disease. Stevenson's travels through Provence, U. S. mountains, the South Seas to his Samoan grave suggest not only a search for healthful air but the consumptive's itch for vagabondage...
Just as President Conant is warning Harvard in a chapel speech this morning that it faces troubled times and grave decisions, the American Legion yesterday heard a message from its Commander, Raymond J. Kelly, pointing out that this year's convention will have to deal with the most serious problems in the history of the Legion. The current street fiestas in Boston by no means embrace all the doings of the Legion. As one of the strongest pressure groups in the country, it took, years ago, a strong stand in favor of greater armament for the U. S. and against...
...with the expulsion scene from Paradise Lost, were shattered. And St. Giles Cripplegate, where Milton's remains lie, did not survive the bombings as it did the fire of 1666. It was here that Ralph Waldo Emerson asked: "Do many persons come to look at Milton's grave?" The reply: "Americans, sir." Other churches which suffered: St. Stephens Walbrook, one of the most admired of the works of Christopher Wren, St. Mary-at-Hill, St. Dunstan-in-the-East, and the Church of Our Lady of Victories...