Word: gravest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...182.Since Japanese colonists teem in Manchuria, the spread of Chinese civil war to that province would be of gravest international concern; and the Japanese Government has long since averred that it will intervene to prevent such an eventuality (TIME, April...
...amount of work done rather than the kind was evidently what President Coolidge had to admire. Reapportionment of popular representation and disposal of the Boulder Dam bill were the gravest omissions. Disagreement on farm-relief and failure to vote at least some of the Big Navy, after Europe had been made to understand the U. S. really needs more ships, were the gravest embarrassments...
...Chinese Civil War seemed about to spread to Manchuria, last week,-a development of gravest international consequence, since Manchuria contains many Japanese colonists. Swarming up from Nanking, the South Chinese armies of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek were on the verge of capturing Peking from North China Dictator Chang Tso-lin, whom they expected to drive pell mell into Manchuria. Therefore the Imperial Japanese Government sent duplicate stiff notes of warning to both Chinese factions, last week, thus...
...nymphs down the primrose path is hard to believe. Now, however, Senora Doloras Longoria of Mexico has returned to the land of bandits and bull-fights, after a sojourn in "New York, Chicago, and other American cities, where she has made keen observation of American morals", and gives the gravest of warnings to senoritas who might be tempted to copy their unprincipled northern sisters...
...Under the insinuating blandishments of their words lurks the gravest error, which tends totally to undermine the very foundations of the Catholic faith. . . . All men understand . . . the duty of believing absolutely God's revelations and obeying His commands. For this purpose, Christ founded the Church on earth. All those who profess themselves Christians cannot but believe that one Church and one Church alone, was founded by Christ. When we enquire . . . which this Church is . . . then all are not in agreement...