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Word: gravest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last week; We, the People gave a 30-minute preview of the kind of political fighting General Eisenhower may expect when he steps into the political ring. The gravest warning was spoken by Maryland's Republican Congressman James Devereux, the'ex-Marine brigadier general who was the commander at Wake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: LiFE's People | 6/9/1952 | See Source »

...third of this reduction fell on the Air Force. If the cut remains in the bill, 1953 orders may be cut by as many as 700 combat planes. This action is taken in the face of the gravest concern at top Washington defense levels over the rapid growth of the Russian air force. At present relative strengths, the U.S. could not defend its own cities against Red air attack, and it is in constant danger of losing its superiority over the Chinese Communist air force in Korea (see WAR IN ASIA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Unhappy Medium | 4/14/1952 | See Source »

...cartoon entitled "WHEN THE REVOLUTION HAPPENS: Bernard Shaw Refuses to Drink the Blood of Aristocrats on Vegetarian Principles and out of Kindness to the Lower Animals." This work is not only a splendid parody of Daumier, it is also an example of Chesterton's genius for translating his gravest opinions into wit. It was, for instance, agony for him to tear himself "out of bed for Mass. He was not speaking lightly when he groaned: "Only religion could have brought us to such a pass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Postscript on G. K. | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

...take issue with you regarding your opposition to the proposed twenty-third amendment. The question before the people is not whether the rich shall be made poor, but whether or not the poor shall be made slaves. I shall enumerate several reasons why this amendment should be enacted. The gravest threat of the present exorbitant tax rate is presented to the lower-income, or wage-earning, groups. In less than two years the lowest tax rate in this nation has slithered upward to over twenty-two per cent. It will take only a short time before this trend results...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE RICH AND THE POOR | 3/4/1952 | See Source »

Reversal. When McKinney stopped talking, Fair Dealers and Southern Democrats cheered. Next day McKinney tackled the gravest party scandal of all: he urged the President to see that all U.S. collectors of internal revenue are appointed through civil service instead of political pull. After listening to McKinney, Truman reversed his own stand of three weeks earlier, announced that he would ask Congress to enact the civil-service proposal into law next January...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Man Who Understands | 11/12/1951 | See Source »

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