Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...love life of the silkworm had become a matter of grave national concern in Japan. Before the war, Japan had controlled about 85% of the world's silk market. Now she had to compete with U.S. nylon. Last week the patter of tiny feet in mating trays of Tokyo's Imperial Sericulture Experiment Station bore witness to the frantic race between Japanese entomologists and U.S. chemists...
...fine fall day last week New York's Senator James M. Mead stood alone at the Hyde Park grave of Franklin Roosevelt. He stood there for a space, bare head bowed. Then 60-year-old Jim Mead, Democratic candidate for governor, went on to Poughkeepsie, where he spoke at the Nelson House, eulogizing the late President...
...American people are in the midst of a grave crisis in political thought...
...York's serious-minded critics had as much to say about the success of movies as they do about legitimate stage attempts, "The Big Sleep" would already be mouldering in its grave. Crowther and company slashed at it for "incoherence" as they gave it thumbs down with a typical sneer. What they failed to comprehend was that this latest Bogart-Bacall opus thrills while it confuses and is likely to leave its audiences just as interested as bewildered...
Perfectionist. In Neosho, Mo., Gravedigger Walter Mitchell suffered a heart attack while digging a grave, dropped dead...