Word: graved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Multifarious are the grave subjects over which Cabinets fume, cleave, resign. Last week Portugal's Cabinet debated the ringing of churchbells. The honorable Portu-gentlemen grew heated, realized a divergence of opinion, resigned en bloc...
...Territory, served four years in the Hawaiian Senate, was supervisor of the city and country of Honolulu. As Chairman of the Republican organization on the Islands, he was famed as one of the most liberal cigar-passers in Pacific politics. His face is longish and inclined to solemnity. Grave eyes look out from behind horn-rimmed glasses. A friendly man, he nevertheless practices a certain cautious reserve, a certain restraint of language. When informed of his appointment by President Hoover, he drew himself up seriously before his friends and announced: "I will endeavor to serve Hawaii in a manner befitting...
Emperor Hirohito's signing of the Kellogg Treaty (see above) had grave and unexpected results last week. Almost without warning it was announced that the Conservative Cabinet of Baron Giichi Tanaka would resign...
Eugene Ysaye, 70, Belgian violinist, lay abed last week in Brussels, his right leg amputated and he, diabetic, in grave condition...
...with the existing inequalities among the departments it is not always true that the senior who is given a degree has obtained a better education (in the broad sense of the word) than the senior from whom a degree is withheld. Thus the system may frequently do a grave injustice to a senior, only because he has chosen the harder path...