Word: graven
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made useless when the North Sea Canal was cut to Amsterdam in 1876. From the town square, an imposing statue looks down at the idle harbor. It is Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Holland's great governor of the East Indies, who had pushed into Java to found an empire. Graven on the base of the monument, for Dutchmen to read, is his terse motto: "Desespereert niet" (Do not despair...
...Soviet Union has a social system of its own, but borrows from others. Last week it disclosed three borrowings: from idolatry, graven images; from capitalism, graft; from tribal jurisprudence, group punishment for individual guilt...
...Graven Image, a down-at-heels Har-vardman, member of the swank Porcellian Club, begs for a Washington job from the brainy Under Secretary who had been snubbed by Porcellians in college. He gets along fine, is promised the job, then spoils everything by expansively recalling college-club days. "Fellows like you," he bumbles, "you never would have made it in a thousand years." In Radio, a husband slaps his wife, tells her he has discovered her infidelities, and that he can hit her "as much as I want to, because, Baby, you're stuck." ("Uh-huh," she says...
Time has passed since Mom Hall was dedicated to Harvard men who had fallen in The War Between the States, and many scars have been graven on the memory of the walled patriarch of Harvard...
Versatile in the word for Chaplain Dan A. Laning, instruction in Practical Duties, Army Morale, and Graven Registration. Younger at fifty than most men of thirty, he looks back upon two years and five engagements in the First World War as a member of the 28th Division Field Hospital in France. He enjoys a solid reputation as a composer to topnotch polyphonic religious music, including several motets, a setting for the pontifical processional "Ecce Sacordes Magnus," and a man in honor of St, Jude. No less solid is his reputation as a composer of hit parade ballads, including "Lonesome," which...