Word: graved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...even discouraged rulers in their alleged "divine right" to their prerogatives. The presence in India today of numerous potentates of varying influence and importance is not by any means a blessing generously granted by the English conquerors for the good of the Indian people, but is in fact, a grave deviation from their own policy of centralization, but at the same time, one which makes it vastly more simple to sustain the foreign rule in the subcontinent. The great majority of the Indian rajahs and native princes are more of a detriment than an aid to their people...
Last week it was understood that President Calles was about to set his hand to an alien land and petroleum law which would violate the U.S.-Mexican understanding. It was even rumored that President Calles had already signed these bills. At Washington the situation was considered not only grave but exceedingly awkward...
George Frederick Handel died in 1759. But death in Germany is quite impermanent. With enviable case and a superb gusto, the late Kaiser used to call to his side legions beyond the grave. He seemed to believe that with his sabre he could rattle the bones of God. Now the grand insolence, and the metaphysical jugglery, whether innate in Teutons or blown over the border from Doorn, reappears in Aix-La-Chappelle, famed by Browning...
...recognition of the competence of the average mature student to exercise his own discretion in regulating his conduct and of the immense educational advantage which derives from that exercise. And at the same time it presents to those students who enjoy the initial benefits of the new liberalism the grave responsibility of vindicating the soundness of the reasoning on which it is based...
...reforms. Alumni, faculty and undergraduate committees are in action. Last week the undergraduates made public some answers they had given to 88 questions of their own devising. Such performances, wherever conducted, seldom bring anything startling to light. They would never be held if there was any likelihood of a grave discovery. The undergraduate critic has had no working knowledge of any college other than his own (save in exceptional cases like the report of the student committee at Dartmouth [TIME, Aug. 4, 1924], which very intelligently visited other institutions), and even of his own college the undergraduate critic...