Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the college medical staff is "appointed to minimize the untoward results of athletics and to define as graphically and clearly as possible the end-results of treatment and those requiring special care," Thorndike contends "to dismiss a sprain of a ligament as a minor injury is a grave error...
...attitude. "There was nothing to get excited about so long as our opponents were only the Arab bloc, bound together by Moslem solidarity, and the U.S.S.R. with her satellites . . . but today we are seriously threatened with the possibility of seeing the U.S. join this group . . . This fact is very grave for it wounds us sentimentally and strikes at our idea of what should be the international solidarity to which we have already made such heavy contributions...
General Eisenhower is the candidate best fitted to bring about effective civilian control of the military part of the budget which, according to Robert Braucher, professor of Law, is the major necessity of "grave importance to this country...
Such oddments are only a beginning for Amy. In the four years it took her to get out her book she has not only viewed etiquette as a cradle-to-the-grave proposition, but turned out advice (most of it highly sensible) on almost every conceivable aspect of life. Amid voluminous dissertations on manners she does not hesitate to write: "Nothing, not even a bad clam, is ever spit, however surreptitiously, into a napkin. But it is sheer masochism to down . . . something really spoiled." What to do? She suggests depositing partly chewed food with the fork on the side...
Solider and deeper were Epstein's statues of women, usually half-figures, in which the sculptor uses the set of shoulders, the modeling of collarbone and breasts to suggest personality. There was a beautiful, grave head of his wife, Margaret, a hollow-eyed, haunted Louise, a brazen, thick-lipped Isabel. His most recent was Elizabeth, and it showed Epstein at his peak: a silver head of a young woman with the air of one of Botticelli's beauties. "It is odd," mused the News Chronicle, "that the sculptor has suffered the odium of being called a modern...