Word: graving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dressed in a castoff suit and consigned to a donated grave, the mortal remains of a poor man were buried last week. These arrangements were appropriate; during most of his life Peter Maurin had slept in no bed of his own and worn no suit that someone had not given away. But to his funeral among the teeming, pushcart-crowded slums of lower Manhattan, Cardinal Spellman himself sent his representative. There were priests representing many Catholic orders, and there were laymen rich & poor from places as far away as Chicago. All night long before the funeral they had come...
...mentally; of his brother Edward, whose mind gave way briefly at the moment of his greatest promise, and who was taken to the asylum by Emerson himself; of another brother, Charles, supposedly the most gifted of the family, who died on the eve of his marriage and at whose grave, according to one account, Emerson burst into a short, near-hysterical laugh...
...days later, the administration was berated by a field investigating team of the American Civil Liberties Union. "By his autocratic attitude and by his and the Board's apparent lack of understanding of the traditional American guarantees of academic freedom and tenure, Dr. Ashby has placed Olivet College in grave danger economically and as an educational institution." the A. C. L. U. stated...
...need for close interaction between technological science and the medical profession for full utilization of these fields. He warned that in a sense, this discovery might tend toward a complacent attitude in regard to pushing forward toward the development of even more fundamental forms of treatment of Grave's disease. However, he emphasized this example in therapeutic application as a beacon in utilizing the tracer methods employing radioactive substances for the analysis of cellular function, growth, metabolism and nutrition in the body and in other organs than the thyroid. He pointed out that knowledge gained about the thyroid has already...
...National Research Council, the top U.S. organization in the development of scientific talent. In any case where study involved a matter of national security, the student was checked by the FBI. "The introduction of security procedures into nonsecret fields," said AEC Chairman David Lilienthal, "would establish a precedent of grave and far-reaching consequence to our scientific and educational system." Nonetheless, the fact remained: the AEC had dished out scholarships to train young men who, because of party membership, could never be eligible to work for the AEC or, for that matter, for any other Government agency...