Word: gravest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...choosing of the undergraduate personnel of the Houses undoubtedly presents some of the gravest problems in connection with the House Plan. The restricted numbers for which the first two Houses provide makes it inevitable that there will be many opportunities for ill-feeling on the part of excluded men. If the responsibility of selection rests with a committee of several different persons it would make it difficult for these men to get adequate explanation of their exclusion. False impressions of favoritism on the part of some members of the committee would be allowed to flourish, and in general the situation...
James Henry Thomas's real duties will be to act as a Minister of Employment. To him the Prime Minister gave the mighty task of settling Britain's unemployment, gravest problem in England today...
...candidates for Brother Bramwell's sabre. But it was reported that the sick man saw the writing on the wall and would resign, at the same time tossing under the ingle-log the fateful envelope with his name of names. It was acknowledged that the Army had reached the gravest crisis of its history, with reorganization ... or, at worst, disorganization ... to result...
...negotiating with Japanese Consul General Shichitaro Yada; and they thought both negotiators a little too polite and slow. Suddenly student exuberance boiled over, and a mob rushed to hurl brickbats and curses at the walls which sheltered Dr. Wang and M. Yada. Loomed a diplomatic incident of gravest sort. Only quick action by one of the Nationalist "Big Three"-Chiang, Feng or Yen (TIME, Dec. 24)-could stop the brickbatting, dispose...
...CRIMSON opens itself to the gravest condemnation, however, when it becomes even less serious than the Lampoon in dealing with problems which will effect the destinies of our nation for the next four years. It is easy for a clown to be non-partisan. That the CRIMSON should give more prominence to the trivialities of a King-George-for-President Club than to a meeting at which a representative to the United States Congress, a Lieutenant-Governor of this state, and a president of the Massachusetts Republican Club were speakers, does not indicate too much discrimination on the part...