Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Walker, Commonwealth Relations Secretary, replied for the government but his arguments were unconvincing. Said he: "A very difficult case . . . We [must] balance private interests and public will and public good . . . against an African background which is not easy to understand . . . The passing of the motion tonight might have very grave consequences...
Carolyn Bigham graduated from Central High School in Charlotte, N.C. last year, just before her 19th birthday, and went to work in the flower department of a local store. Last month Carolyn had survived a grave illness and was just finishing grammar school again...
...same time, however, the project carries certain grave dangers. Unleashed alumni who track down only football players could do the College much greater harm than those who overlook the athletes and other schoolboy leaders and hunt solely for scholars. Probably the basic questions to be faced are whether everyone has the same definition of "Balance in the College" and whether everything in Harvard's new program really helps this goal...
According to Koussy's interpretation, 18 members of the Symphony played Bach's soaring Air for the G String at the funeral service in Boston last week. The church bell tolled 76 times. Next day he was laid to rest in the maple-shaded grave he had chosen for himself two miles from the music center at Tanglewood...
...ller, by Carlo Beuf, reads like a witty piece of European detective fiction. But by the end of the book it is clear that Carlo Beuf has written a fable of the age, in a manner as gay as Aesop's, and with a meaning just as grave...