Word: graved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are grave possibilities of a European crisis, if the factional strife be carried to extremes. One, perhaps all, of the candidates are backed by the Powers that have a special interest in that part of Europe. The Balkan states, in times past, have furnished diplomatic and warlike diversion at the pleasure of a Guiding Hand. Greece may yet do likewise...
...should be on hand to hear Professor Merriman outline the situation. The meeting is to be open in the real sense of the word, and anyone who has a question or an idea will receive full opportunity to discuss it. As has been pointed out before, there are some grave objections to the scheme as it stands, notably the proposal to maintain two systems side by side; but it contains constructive points as well. The idea of three courses a year is well worth considering...
...state of the seventh bank in months to close its doors, and the announcement by three more of a moratorium delaying withdrawals of savings deposits for ninety days, the course of unthinking panic seems to have been allayed. The gradual return to sanity will now offer an opportunity for grave reflection...
...dinner given by a group of Chinese dignitaries in honor of an American, the foreigner, through no fault of the Eighteenth Amendment, but rather of a very highly polished chair, slipped from his seat and disappeared under the table. His embarrassment was somewhat palliated by the grave courteny of his hosts; one by one, in turn, each of the Orientals slid from his chair under the table, so as to make the visitor feel quite at home...
...time to remedy this grave situation in our undergraduate life is now, when the various managers are making up their schedules for next year. If this is within the province of the Student Council, does it not seem desirable that it should at once appoint a committee through which all undergraduate activities must be booked. W. V. M. FAWOETT...