Word: graved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Turk of Constantinople, Thrace, and Smyrna, and the submission of the holy places of Islam--Jerusalem and Mecca--to the authority of the Sultan. The publication of such demands just before the Near East Conference to discuss Turkey's position was regarded all over England as a grave diplomatic blunder; and the demands themselves were looked on as an attempt to coerce the British government by a minority of its subjects. Accordingly, Montagu's resignation was demanded immediately. His successor will in all probability be Lord Derby, who, as a conservative, is in favor of force to quell rebellion...
...this the grave thought of the third...
...They willingly left the unachieved purpose of their lives in order that all life should not be wrenched from its purpose, and without fear they turned from these gates of learning to those of the grave...
...grave problem M. Rouff presents. The nations would extend their hand to the Orient, to draw her from her peaceful worship of the philosophical gods that she may taste of the romance of international commerce. But, M. Rouff says, China will not submit to the proffered modernization. She will not make merchants of her mandarins; she will keep her narrow streets and rickshaws and pagodas while the West goes its way to destruction...
...quite evident that the tunnel had seen much use at one period of the university's existence. In fact, we learn from obscure references in the records that the lure of the city was once considered a grave problem by the Circle of the Elders. As far as we can make out they took no action on the matter, and the danger remedied itself. Either the tunnel was deliberately stopped up by the students, for fear of encroachments of visiting Incas from the metropolis; or else in the revival of intellectual interest during the golden age it was neglected...