Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seems true, as you say, that most people will never understand more about Relativity than is told by the limerick quoted in the Einstein article [TIME, July 1]. It is not true, however, that the author will refrain from turning over in his grave should you continue to misquote...
Redin waited more than 20 hours. Then came the word: the jury was ready with a verdict. They filed into the box, their faces expressionless, their manner grave. The verdict: Not Guilty...
...broken out, causing a dangerous rise in my father's blood pressure and frequently reducing me to tearful exasperation. But apart from this domestic disturbance, materially socialism hasn't altered our way of life one jot or tittle-despite my father's gloomy prophecies of grave drops in the family budget...
...Civil Service lists, 98% of the teachers. At the same time, however, the Russians are courting pet Germans. Civil government offices for Germans are always more comfortable and pleasant than the Russian Military Government offices. Officers salute, click their heels, proffer cigarets and act toward the Germans with a grave courtesy that many an American officer has not yet learned. In Weimar the reporters went down to the National Theater and found a pale, 26-year-old youth sitting in Goethe's chair. Hans Viehweg became a Socialist after the war, but switched quickly to Communism. Thereafter, his rise...
Elaine and her fellow black marketeers will be barred forever from French universities. Functionary Houel last week faced a possible five-year prison term. Cried Le Parisien Libéré: "A grave symptom of moral rottenness...