Word: gravest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state papers in the nation's history, all drafted by Jefferson: the Declaration of Independence, A Summary View of the Rights of British America, Jefferson's three drafts for the Constitution of Virginia. Even in times of enormous stress his free-wheeling mind could shuttle between the gravest matters and his airiest interests. Writing to John Randolph on possible reconciliation with England in August 1775, he reminded him about a deal involving Randolph's fiddle: "I now send the bearer for the violin ... I beleive [sic] you had no case to her. If so, be so good...
With the coming of the atom bomb, the U.S. press found itself confronted with one of the gravest and most difficult jobs in its history. It had the prime duty of giving readers the best possible under standing of the atomic age and of the technical processes that had brought it about. On the other hand, it had the responsibility of not giving away any information that might be of value to the enemy...
...excellent; he knew what was important and what was not. By November the FBI had another lead: the Harwell informant probably had worked in the U.S. because he knew the "mechanics" as well as the physics of the bomb. (The method of detonating the bomb has always been the gravest U.S. secret.) The field was thus sharply narrowed and the closest surveillance set up over a handful of scientists. Of those, the one most closely watched was Fuchs because, in cross-checking, investigators recalled that his name had turned up in a notebook belonging to one of the men questioned...
...medical education crisis, he said. "the nation is faced with an educational problem of the gravest sort, far too serious to be solved by the efforts of a few universities by themselves." Harvard, he continued, is no exception to this problem. "The factors which have led to the present serious crisis ... are obvious. The drastic reforms in medical education during the second decade of his century carried with them by implication a rapidly rising cost of medical education for a long period of years. As the basic medical sciences expanded and became more and more closely associated with the clinical...
...night of May 17, 1900, Victoria rejoiced. Her troops that day had relieved Mafeking, besieged seven months by the Boers. Though no great war, this had been the gravest challenge to Pax Britannica since Waterloo, four years before Victoria was born. On Mafeking night in the upper quadrangle of Windsor Castle, Eton boys sang patriotic songs for the old Queen. She sat by a window in the dusk, leaning out again & again to say "Thank you. Thank you from my heart." Many of the singing boys or their sons were to die in the two great wars to come...