Word: graver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Pulitzer Prize Biographer Allan Nevins (Graver Cleveland): "Names of wars are usually inaccurate. What do you say-the Civil War? Or the War between the States, as Southerners say; or the War of the Rebellion, which is the official and rather foolish and unjust name in our records? I prefer the War for Southern Independence. I would like to think this one would become known as the Last...
Long John Bryan has solved most of the difficulties with his uninsured car by now but seems to be confronted with even graver problems in his relations with the chubby boy of the entry; all are looking on with great interest. By the way, Neale A. Gow has a full set of pictures of himself as an athlete and track star down through his life, and he would be extremely happy to show, them to anyone who dares to drop into his room. The Boz and Ned Bailey still haven't found anything to talk about (not even the common...
...Future. But the Stock Exchange members last week were deeply shocked by a graver damage that war had done to Philippine business. Most businessmen were old, tired and shaken. There was no clear goal ahead, and many men wondered whether they would use the war damage reparations they will eventually collect to re-establish industry and plantations...
...back we go to the State Department. The Immutables look graver than usual. They have sent no instructions to the Ambassadors. They don't know what we are talking about. There are cold eyes, metallic smiles and silence...
...graver rumblings of danger came this week from central China: four strong Japanese columns had plunged southward, towards the thrice-captured, thrice-abandoned ruins of Changsha. Tokyo's aim was the last missing links in the great rail line from Korea to the South China Seas...