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Word: graveness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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These problems are grave. Three million North Korean refugees have crossed, the 38th parallel and are a severe drain on the South Korean economy. Agricultural production is one-half of normal. No coal mines are in operation. Tungsten production (once a major source of revenue) has decreased to almost nothing. Some textile mills are humming, but their entire production goes to ROK troops. Inflation has raised the price of consumer goods to ten times last year's price...

Author: By Frank B. Ensign jr., | Title: Brass Tacks | 5/22/1951 | See Source »

...insult. The Communists organized a counterdemonstration, but 200 Republican Guards and 300 soldiers, sent to Montataire by the government, saw to it that the Reds did not interfere with the ceremony. In the cemetery, the Depestel family and French veterans laid bouquets of violets on Gaston's grave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Unquiet Grave | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

...tombstone, however, is still at large. There have been no reports as to its whereabouts since it "disappeared" from Dunster House. Archibald's grave is still bare...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Original Site of Dunster's Mystery Tombstone Found | 5/15/1951 | See Source »

...original resting place of the tombstone which recently disappeared from the Dunster House Superintendent's office was located yesterday after extensive sleuthing. Archibald M--'s grave lies near a monument of old cannons in the Cambridge City Cemetery...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Original Site of Dunster's Mystery Tombstone Found | 5/15/1951 | See Source »

...Credo of Maimonides, the great 12th Century physician-philosopher who believed in the physical resurrection of the dead. "But the hearts of many stricken Jews have also echoed the lament of Job: 'As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.' It is growing harder for modern Jews to believe in physical resurrection. This probably accounts for the increasing trend toward cremation which is found among non-Orthodox Jews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: What Jews Believe | 5/14/1951 | See Source »

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