Word: graved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seldom in the past 50 years that the people of this country have been confronted by the prospect of widespread industrial strife. But never, so far as I can judge, has the danger been so grave and so urgent as today. The wisest thinkers warn us that at this moment there is an almost unparalleled crisis in our national life...
...Versailles, the wind blew-blew so hard that it uprooted a fine willow that had been weeping for Napoleon for nearly 100 years. In 1832, this tree was planted at Versailles from a cutting, obtained under British fire, by a Lieutenant Drouville from Napoleon's grave at St. Helena...
...Alexis de Tocqueville, whose writings on the U. S., the speaker implied, were quite as able as Bryce's, if not more so. "A nation," proclaimed Bryce's successor, in lofty conclusion, "must believe in itself as a moral as well as a political entity . . . eager pursuit . . . grave problems . . . powerful aids . . . national security and national satisfaction . . . lasting international peace...
...impending trial at Dayton, Tenn., of Teacher John T. Scopes for giving instruction in Evolution, contrary to a state law, continued to clutter the press with reiteration of the issues at stake, which adherents of both sides of the case stoutly believed would "educate" the public up to the grave importance of the trial and its everlasting effect upon U. S. pedagogy, science, morals, history, religion...
Leprosy (the grey death), according to certain medieval conjecturers, issued in the form of a woman's body with a rat's head from the grave of the stillborn Antichrist; scientists have lately suggested that it is bred from putrid fish. Rising out of the East, it has crept down the centuries, a slow, fatal smoke, eating in secret. When Godfrey de Bouillon rode against the Paladin in the 11th Century, it withered the flesh of his captains under their painted armor, followed their retreating banners into Europe. Contagious, it is never hereditary...