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Word: graving (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Johnny Chafee's Yardling Wrestlers, who have neglected their muscles to bone up for exams, face a grave danger of being skinned when they take the mat against a superior Exeter squad at Exeter, New Hampshire, today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Glad Welcome Awaits Freshmen On Exeter's Mat | 2/12/1949 | See Source »

...rule your mind and your body from the cradle to the grave...

Author: By Joel Raphaelson, | Title: Off The Cuff | 1/25/1949 | See Source »

These stipend adjustments can be covered by surplus funds only for another year or two, Bender says. "What may happen in future years, however, particularly if there are further increases in College charges as enrollment drops ...gives cause for grave concern..." The number of scholarships must not go down, the report says, if "the College is to have a democratic national student body." But when surpluses evaporate, the number of scholarships or the size of grants will have to drop, Bender goes on, unless a new solution is found

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bender's Report Shows Advising, Council Snags | 1/21/1949 | See Source »

...Oval Room of the White House last week, President Truman read to his press conference these soldierly words from George Catlett Marshall. The President was grave as he went on reading his own written reply. Suddenly Truman grew impatient with the inadequacy of his own words. He looked up to reporters and blurted: "In my opinion, General Marshall is the outstanding man of the World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The New Secretary | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

...Eighty-year-old Scott Pillsbury took advantage of mild weather at Scarborough, Me., hurried to a public cemetery to dig his grave before the ground froze. He explained that he expected to die soon, and disapproved of the local custom of storing bodies through winter months and burying them in the spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Jan. 17, 1949 | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

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