Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anxious to focus community-wide attention upon the "grave need for maintaining rent controls" and the importance of an articulate public opinion on that issue, the Harvard and Cambridge chapters of the American Veterans Committee will sponsor a mass rent control rally Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock in the Rindge Technical High School auditorium...
...figures today, enjoys perhaps the highest popularity and the lowest life-expectancy. The two neighbors, though they shared the same Tommy-gun-toting doormen, the same postman and the same erratic central heating, were not on speaking terms. They were engaged in an implacable battle leading up to a grave finale: Poland's long-delayed national elections, now scheduled...
...Senationally successful" is probably a fair evaluation of the occupation, as occupations go. But anyone who has watched it steadily at close range or has studied it thoroughly can see grave defeats, in present tendencies as well as recent mistakes. Those first, clean-sweeping, dragon-slaying days of '45 are over, and since the re-introduction of some self-government in Japan a retrogressive policy that comes of wild fear of Russia has been in evidence...
...that TIME has not lost its sense of humor. The "tongue-in-cheek" way that TIME presents some of the problems of the world makes it more possible for one to consider them sanely; for, unlike most newspapers, TIME never becomes hysterical over any situation, no matter of what grave portent. If one accepts a crisis by looking for whatever humor that crisis may contain, one is surely more apt to reach a sensible, sane and logical conclusion...
Tracked to the Grave. The two Russians studied microscopic tracks of free silver which mesons had made on photographic films (probably exposed at high altitudes, where cosmic ray effects are strongest). Their authorized, translated report is far from clear, but apparently they found what they were looking for in the sensitive emulsion: groups of short lines arranged like a star or a chicken-track. Each of these, they said, was an X which marked the spot where a negative meson had murdered an atomic nucleus...