Word: gravest
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Perhaps the greatest single contribution the Taft-Hartley Act should provide, however, is a workable labor policy for time of national emergency. But it is in establishing emergency procedures that some of the gravest weaknesses in the law have appeared. The injunction provision of the bill, invoked twelve times, has been actually successful in only three of them. Often the unpopularity of the injunction with union officials has delayed arbitration when it should have facilitated it. In place of this clumsy, unpopular procedure, Congress should authorize a plan similar to the one recently proposed by economist Sumner Slichter. Such...
This is one of the gravest charges anyone could level against a university. If true, it means that an educational institution is tolerating a dangerous perversion of education. It means that in the name of academic freedom, Harvard permits as members of its faculty, men who are held in academic slavery by a menacing totalitarian ideology. No wonder his charges, broadcast as they were through a nationwide press, have damaged the University's prestige and could cause concern among parents whose children are, or want to be, students here...
...appointment is at once a compliment and a blow to Harvard," according to David E. Owen, professor of History. Owen added that "although the silver lining hunters may find sufficient consolation in knowing that German problems will be in able hands, this is the gravest kind of less from our parochial point of view...
...Eisenhower down to size. At San Francisco he did this in the most effective possible way -by reminding his audience that the general used to work for Truman. "He is," said Harry, "the man I chose to be a chief lieutenant in some of the greatest and gravest undertakings of my Administration . . . The reason I have spoken out ... is that the general has betrayed himself ... by his wild attacks on policies and programs for which he had a great responsibility-and received great credit...
...Americans in an inconclusive battle at Freeman's Farm. On Oct. 7, the British attacked again. The Americans, led by Arnold, broke the enemy line and drove them back to Saratoga (now Schuylerville). Surrounded and running out of supplies, Burgoyne surrendered on Oct. 17, to end the gravest threat the Americans had yet faced, and pave the way for France's decision to come to the colonies...