Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There he collected such masterpieces as Maillol's Summer, Renoir's Laundress, Bourdelle's Heracles Archer, Rodin's John the Baptist. About 20 years ago, he cast a beautiful bronze of Rodin's L'Ombre, and ordered it set aside to mark his grave when he dies...
...self-deception as to act uninterested when the dinner bell rings. Whether our lives are happy or unhappy, or-like most lives-a confusing blend of dullness and joy and anguish, within each of us is the hunger for a kind of life so radiant and intense that the grave will not be able to frustrate it. God has created us this way; He has built the desire into our very being." -The Rev. Chad Walsh in Episcopal Churchnews...
...settle" was as frank an admission of no policy whatsoever as one could give. Had the China Lobby been able to incite as vigorous a policy as our present Vandenberg Policy in Europe, most of our foreign difficulties would be over and we would not be in the grave peril we are now. Unfortunately, this country is going to pay for the weakness of the China Lobby for many years to come. Earl M. Kulp...
...Africa's grave race problem will be resolved within the next decade, Basil F. Schonland, Chancellor of Rhodes University, said yesterday...
...present rapid industrial development has done a great deal to cut segregation, which is now practiced only in the only in the older trade unions. If this trend continues, he said, "a large percentage of the natives will be urbanized within ten years. Now the situation is grave, but we are a country of two and one half million whites to nine and one half million natives. The whites sincerely want to see more natives civilized. but they are afraid of being engulfed themselves...