Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slow Death for Sara. At first it seemed that Bomb No. 5 had done little fatal damage. The Arkansas and the LSM 60 were the only ships missed at first. Others had developed lists. Then men saw from afar that the Saratoga was in grave trouble...
...industry has been a dismal flop. Pemex (Petroleos Mexicanos), the operating company, has been loaded with an administration of political lame ducks. Production has fallen, losses have skyrocketed. Mexico, which once exported 50% of its oil, now has barely enough for its own increased consumption. And it is in grave danger of running out of oil if Poza Rica, the one rich field, should go dry-as overworked fields sometimes...
Despite a record of sincere endeavor, it is obvious there are grave weaknesses in this system of rule by flat. A workable solution must be created to take the place of this phantom-government. It is part of the job of the men selected by the House meetings this week to draw up a constitution that will embody enough popular control to bring the Student Council out of the 19th century. And the first essential of this control lies in ratification of the constitution by the entire student body, lest future Student Councils find themselves in the unenviable position...
...INSURANCE. Labor's National Insurance Bill provides "cradle to grave" social security for the entire nation, is similar to the Liberal Party's Beveridge...
...Condemned Playground, Connolly has collected a sheaf of critical studies, parodies, travel notes and pronouncements dating from 1927 to 1943. They appeared in various London magazines, including his own Horizon. Along with his Enemies of Promise (1939) and The Unquiet Grave (1945), these writings are chiefly valuable in that they communicate and defend a love of writing as an art. They show a humane concern and alertness for the dedicated writer's lot in a radio-cinema civilization. They are full of bright glances into the writing process...