Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...allows the human body to be born disfigured, twisted and crippled, and to become palsied, leprous and maimed before reaching the grave-but He also gives each man a perfect soul at birth, the final appearance of which is man's work alone. The smug physical perfections of this world would do well to concern themselves more with the condition of their own souls...
Irene Castle Treman McLaughlin Enzinger, famed international dancer of World War I, pooh-poohed Chicago's current rabies epidemic, which is so grave that Illinois authorities have ordered all pet dogs and cats inoculated, all strays destroyed. Not unduly upset by the fact that 313 Chicagoans were bitten in four days last week, Antivivisectionist Castle (long egged on by the Hearst press), wanted pet owners to know that anti-rabies shots "would paralyze the hind legs of dogs." Though claiming to be no "damn fool," Irene, who in more than 25 years of running animal shelters has prided herself...
...complex. Britain has the undoubted security advantage of a closely knit country But besides this, certain safeguards of a customary nature have acted strongly to prevent the development of an inquisitorial type of investigation. There is, for example, the tradition that Parliamentary committees are appointed for only special, necessarily grave investigations. Shawcross believes that the British public would not tolerate an investigating committee with wide powers. Further, there is a Parliamentary tradition of not attacking a civil servant by his name as this would be considered an abuse of the privileges of the House of Commons since the man could...
...72nd anniversary of his old commander in chief's birth, President Eisenhower had a military deputy place a wreath on Franklin D. Roosevelt's grave at Hyde Park...
...tradition and Franco's constitution, Spain is a Christian state. But across Spain last week sounded a grave warning from spokesmen for the state church itself: "The overwhelming majority" of Spanish workers are indifferent to religion. "Contrary to what was hoped," they have not developed "a greater feeling for Christian life...