Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...writer feels that this letter is due the State Board, as well as simply an act of justice toward Dr. Butler, for upon the institution of the clinic I had grave doubts as to its efficacy, and in fact expressed myself as being bitterly opposed...
...advocating that Harvard divorce itself of any "big-time basketball" pretentions, Matt Bozek has risked a grave disservice to the cause he once championed: the development of a rewarding and exciting basketball program at Harvard, for the players, the school, and the community alike...
...landscape -Northern Italy "has successfully avoided the second-rate Americanisms you see elsewhere in Europe-gas stations that don't work as well as they do in the U.S. but are just as ugly." As for Italy's intellectual life, he believes it to be "under very grave pressure from the imminent danger of the collapse and corruption of its overcrowded, overburdened university system...
When a sudden cold spell struck the vast eucalyptus groves in the hills above Berkeley, Calif., last December, 2,000,000 to 3,000,000 of the tall trees died. Planted at the turn of the century in an ill-fated lumbering venture, the trees have now become a grave danger. Forestry and fire officials warn that the 3,000 acres of dead trees will present an unprecedented fire hazard this summer. The usual changing winds of late August and early September could fan a cigarette-or lightning-caused fire and send flames sweeping through the surrounding hills toward...
...Commission were now to continue, the Faculty members would be thrust into the position of trying to negotiate with Union representatives, rather than trying to produce a coherent plan for discussion by the Faculty, which is the charge of the Commission. I have grave doubts about the viability of the Commission under these circumstances. Robert F. Bales Chairman Commission on Graduate Education