Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best train exhibit in town, although it doesn't touch F. O. A. Schwarz on the "toy" cars. These 1951 models may actually be toys, but it seemed to me that anyone under nine years old in the way of one of these speeding machines would be running a grave risk of suicide. A sleck, black, compressed air racer, which was also available last year, is capable of enormous speeds and gets up to 75 miles per gallon...
...first the professors themselves would wander the graveyard paths by stealth and by night to find specimens good enough to last out a term or a course. Later one professor wrote that the students themselves were becoming very helpful in digging up good subjects. But grave-robbing was obviously a crime, and mutilation of bodies was believed by many to be sacreligious. Harvard had to fight to keep her medical men out of trouble...
...line with the 1942 recommendations of the famed Beveridge Report, which urged all-around social security for Britons from the cradle to the grave...
...pesos in brisk free-market trading. Crowds gathered quickly to read news bulletins in Mexico City's Bucareli Street, radio stations increased their newscasts. "The measures which the great nations now take," said Bogota's El Tiempo, "will affect all of us. We enter into a grave period...
...cover the years from 1928 to 1945) would lead anyone to suspect that he would soon become one of the most daring and controversial political leaders of his time. But after he took office as President, the letters have a more thoughtful tone; they are dominated by a grave anxiety over the future of the country and by an almost imperious energy in behalf of the program by which Roosevelt proposed to save...