Word: graving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said the Whitney: "It has become increasingly apparent that there were serious divergences . . . especially with respect to the showing of advanced trends in the art of today. This disagreement . . . raised grave doubts [that the Whitney's] liberal tradition could be preserved after the coalition...
Fruit First. In later years he was preoccupied with the cycle of human life, from embryo to the grave. One of the showpieces at Frogner is the Vigeland fountain, surrounded by four groups of "trees of life." One group depicts childhood, with babies dangling from the first tree like ripe fruit...
...made what he now considers the grave error of bickering with the Yankees over salary matters. After a long holdout siege, he missed the first twelve days of the 1938 season. He was booed all over the circuit, and the booing in Yankee Stadium was loudest & longest...
...American Years" were those in which, in the accepted version, Hawthorne's life was most shadowy-when he "lived in seclusion ... in his town of Salem, a seclusion certainly grave, if not morbid, obsessed with the Puritan sense of guilt and haunted by a family curse, writing his wonderful stories that no one knew he had written, working at the dull routine of the Custom House to provide for his family, and emerging in his early middle age ... to take part in a contemporary world he had scarcely known existed." Says Robert Cantwell: "Such a portrait, with its angular...
...Marshall Plan nations (plus Western Germany) are charged not only with building the framework of European cooperation but with allocations of U.S. help among themselves. If they had shown themselves unable to cope with the problem, the Marshall Plan would have bean in extremely grave peril. In Paris last week, with a sort of corrective lurch like that of a man who slips and regains his balance on an icy sidewalk, the negotiators reached agreement on allocations...