Word: graving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...views] . . . It can be provided only though freedom of inquiry and discussion, and by . . . the personal idealism of [teachers] aware of the moral and spiritual implications of knowledge . . . Graduate schools and colleges which glorify research and publication at the expense of the art of teaching are guilty of a grave and perhaps irreparable sin against civilization. Communities which spend millions for alcohol, cosmetics and amusements, and what is left over for schools, are committing spiritual suicide. [We are] letting our world slide into an abyss of technological and moral confusion...
...weakening of the Commonwealth, which the U.S. would once have welcomed, was now a matter of grave U.S. concern. Who, for example, was now responsible for defense and order in the key strategic areas around the shores of the Indian Ocean? Burma had stepped from the Empire into chaos. Other lands might go the same way. Little to stop them was apparent last week in London...
...hours, the grave bulletins from Lord Moran had Canada on edge. "Mr. Mackenzie King's health," said one, "has suffered from the long strain of affairs." Another reported that Mr. King's blood circulation was "causing concern." Tension ended when newsmen got more facts. Mr. King had been ordered to stay in bed for a rest for three or four weeks. But he was sitting up for visitors, discussing conference details with members of the Canadian delegation and getting his acting prime minister, Louis St. Laurent, to come over and sit in at Downing Street...
Olivet had a brand-new president, cigar-puffing Aubrey L. Ashby, 62, a onetime vice president and general counsel of NBC, and no man to tolerate academic nonsense. He had grave doubts about Olivet's tutorial system, in which Akeley had been a leader. Said he: "A college is like a business-plus . . . When you defy constituted authority, all you have left is anarchy. Student expression has been allowed to run wild here over a period of years. We're not against student expression, but it must run through channels." And faculty critics were worse...
...Sept. 13), the disagreements were so sharp that it seemed humanly impossible to reconcile the conflicting views. Temple was presiding, with his usual unruffled skill. "How will this do?" he asked, and read a few scribbled sentences. There was an awed silence, broken by two voices, one conveying the grave congratulations of a European theologian and the other from a U.S. delegate who said "Archbishop, you tickle me pink...