Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wastrel is again James Tyrone, the elder brother who haunted his way through Long Day's Journey into Night: now, he is measurably nearer to the grave which is his best hope. The slut (this time paradoxically endowed with a strange secret of virginity) is a huge, slatternly girl, both proud and ashamed of her physical bulk and power...
...have sometimes wondered whether the time to stop General Education has come," said Mark de Wolfe Howe last week. His query apparently reflects Faculty attitudes throughout the College, for several members of the General Education Committee have grave doubts that the Faculty would approve the program if asked to vote today...
...funeral announcement: "Died a hero's death at the Bolshevists' hands." And last week in Munich's Waldfriedhof, as 1,500 Eastern European exiles watched silently, Bandera's coffin, draped with the blue-and-yellow banner of Ukrainian independence, was lowered into a simple grave hallowed by an urn full of Ukrainian soil...
...strolled 6,000 men who know the value of money. For the delegates to the annual convention of the American Bankers Association, the subject came as natural as breathing. Among them there was a strong note of worry. Reason: money has become so tight that the situation has raised grave questions for the bankers-and for the U.S. How much higher will interest rates go? How long will the pinch last? Will money become so tight that it will"choke off the boom...
...North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Northern Wisconsin, and Michigan's upper peninsula. In these states the transition from small to large-scale farming, the lack of near-by markets for goods, potential competition from mines along the St. Lawrence Seaway, and a dearth of new industrial development have created grave problems...