Word: graven
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Almost alone of all the first-rate artists who have painted, drawn and graven the War is Kerr Eby, in that he actually served in the line. Tall, grey-haired and 46, he was born in Tokyo, son of a Methodist missionary. Four dollars a week as a lithographer helped put him through art school in Manhattan. He went to France with the A.E.F. camouflage service, was attached to innumerable artillery regiments, never rose above sergeant's rank...
...colonists until the Itasca returned. And on the theory that the islands' designation as British on some world maps might be construed as a precedent for British possession, a U. S. flag was raised on each island, and mounted on a cairn of stones were legends like this graven in lead plates...
Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any manner of likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth...
Second, dodging the pronouncement against graven images, spells out: "Hear, Oh Israel, the Name of the Lord...
...that since the laws in question were passed by Legislatures, the additionally ticklish question of State rights was to be considered. Furthermore, the legislation under scrutiny was of an emergency nature. The court may balk when the time comes to pass on the more permanent legislation New Dealers want graven in the statute books...