Word: graver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...special function of a university to supply the community with men who can think deeply and clearly because they are detached from the conduct of affairs and are members of a fellowship in which hard thinking and fearless statement of one's convictions are especially prized. The graver the national emergency, the greater the need for honest and courageous thinking about national problems...
Last March 21, Paul Reynaud became Premier of France. Power fit him well, but was ungainly on the Countess de Fortes. She began to fancy herself as a power in the State, and while France's troubles grew graver, her meddling voice grew shriller. She got hysterical when Frenchmen whispered that France's fleur de Us was being crowded by a faded fleur du lit. At Tours and at Bordeaux, she was constantly in Government hair. Then Reynaud, France, and Countess de Portes's hopes for grandeur fell...
...France, newspapers were in a graver plight than in England. A Government edict forced them to reduce consumption of paper by one-half. This order limits them to two pages (a single sheet) five days a week, four pages twice a week...
Last week Husband Aherne had graver matters on his mind. With her career in pictures assured by Rebecca, and Frank Lloyd waiting to star her in Columbia's The Tree of Liberty, Cinemactress Fontaine was gravely ill in a Los Angeles hospital...