Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grave people of Arabia are marked with the tradition of more than 60 centuries of victory over one of the toughest lands on earth. They are neither progressive nor playful, but of the simple fact that they have been alive a long time they are quietly proud. One of the proudest, and least bound by the past, is the King, Ibn Saud. He lets a few strangers into his oil-bearing domains, and he likes to hear tales of how life is lived beyond the sea. So, when his 14-year-old son, Prince Nawaf Ibn Abdul Aziz, prepared...
York tempered his pronouncement with a word or two of archepiscopal caution. For one thing, confiscation of State endowments would deal the Church a grave financial blow. Far worse, Disestablishment "would be regarded, however illegitimately, as the national repudiation of religion." Further, the Archbishop cited what Poet-Essayist T. S. Eliot wrote in The Idea of a Christian Society: "The very act of disestablishment separates [a church] more definitely and irrevocably from the life of the nation than if it had never been established...
...Rome's imperial power. The dramatic spotlighting, which the sculptor fiddled with for seven years after his Lincoln was installed, lends mystery to what is essentially a competent, straightforward portrait; Daniel was never one to take liberties with his subjects. "He was all for tradition and a grave, measured style," says daughter Margaret. "He could no more have gone in for 'self-expression' than he could have walked naked down Fifth Avenue...
...courtyard, the bodies were being placed in unpainted coffins. A bulldozer was dredging a common grave. The vegetable garden tended by the condemned during their imprisonment burgeoned in the spring sunshine. It could be seen from the cell where Hitler in 1924 wrote Mein Kampf...
Like a mourner laying a nosegay on a grave, Miss Josephine Roche last week paid the first liquidating dividend of her bankrupt Rocky Mountain Fuel Co., the company the United Mine Workers loved. The dividend of 25? on each of the company's 758,720 shares of common stock came from sales of coal lands and royalties from mines leased to other companies...