Word: graver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With many housing units in the province of Punjab destroyed in religious riots, housing has often become a graver problem than food for the student community. Already the World Student Relief has been active in starting a student co-op hostel throughout the country...
Every month brings a calamity graver than most major battles. Millions pass into slavery between one week and the next. The fate of whole continents swings with a day's news. A fifth of the world's people are involved in actual war. No place, from the Congo to Spitsbergen, is safe. Nobody is secure...
...world felt the execution had taken place less upon the evidence than for the crime of holding extreme opinions." Today there is a more insidious movement spreading over the nation than the red hysteria that engulfed the early twenties. "The crime of holding extreme opinions" becomes a graver offense each day as more and more individuals do not express their true political beliefs for fear of economic and social organization...
...doubt whether there is any spot on the face of the earth where the advent of Western business, with its invariable accompaniments of liquor, gambling, prostitution and movies, has had graver consequences in debauching and demoralizing a people than among the inhabitants of the Fiji Islands, who had been lifted from cannibal savagery to simple but admirable Christian living in less than a century by the influence of Christian missions...
...psychiatrists themselves had more solemn problems on their minds. Their profession, they thought, was facing a task even graver than its job in wartime. Said famed Psychoanalyst William C. Menninger, the new A.P.A. president-elect: "No longer is the world cursed with smallpox or cholera or yellow fever. . . . We have learned to eliminate space and to annihilate people, but we still lag far behind in learning how to get along with each other. . . . Is there any hope that medicine, through its Cinderella, psychiatry, can step forward to offer its therapeutic effort to a world full of unhappiness and maladjustment...