Word: grave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard last spring voted support for a delegate to an International conference, it gave promise of beginning a new era in student affairs. Up to that time University Hall had frowned on student attempts to participate in national organizations--not to speak of international ones. Certainly there are grave dangers attached to such participation. Professional leadership, partisan domination, and even outright graft have often corrupted the high ideals with which student organizations have been formed in the past. It is a basic weakness, resulting from the nature of student life which has time for only part-time participation in extra...
...industrialists alike: last week, industrial stocks took a sharp plunge on the London Exchange. Minister of Fuel and Power Emanuel Shinwell had denounced widespread rumors of impending power rationing as "malicious propaganda." But he himself had to admit last week that, unless coal production increased rapidly, there was grave danger of a breakdown in Britain's hard-struggling industry this winter...
Rome stirred with ancient and impressive wrath. For the sentencing of Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac to 16 years on charges of helping terrorists and of forcing conversion of Serbs to Catholicism, the Holy See last week excommunicated "all those who have participated physically or morally" in this grave offense against the "liberty and dignity [of one of] the Church's sacred pastors." This clearly included Marshal (Josip Broz) Tito and most of his Government...
...faithful she is! ... I believe she understands every word I say. ... I know for a fact that when some dogs in history had died, their humans lay down on the grave and howled all night. ... It was just instinct, of course, not real intelligence, but all the same it makes you think. I believe that when a human dies it goes to a special heaven for humans, with kind dogs to look after it. It may be sentimental of me, but there it is. Poor things, why shouldn't they...
...Monterrey, Mexico's industrial capital and third city (pop. 250,000), are like few other Mexicans. They are grave, busy, in a hurry. They wear felt hats instead of sombreros, and take short siestas. An ordinary Mexican, if he wins in a lottery, buys a car and goes on a spree. The man from Monterrey starts a new business. Throughout Mexico, the sign for stinginess, hitting the elbow of one arm with the fist of the other, is used almost automatically in referring to Monterrey...