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Word: grievously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Democratic Minority of the House Committee on Military Affairs: "Imagi- nation cannot compass the advantages to the fortunate legatee of this gigantic gift from a great government. . . . Can it be anything less than a sinister menace, a grave danger, an unmistakably false step wholly unjustified, a grievous wrong to the future generations that will have to live under it and abide by what we here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSCLE SHOALS: New Bid | 4/28/1924 | See Source »

Alexander Woollcott: "A grievous disappointment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Jan. 7, 1924 | 1/7/1924 | See Source »

...Leon Daudet, leader of the Royalist Party in Paris, editor of l'Action Française, Royalist journal, was assailed on all sides by irate Socialists when he took his seat in the Chamber. It was with difficulty that the ushers and saner deputies were able to prevent grievous bodily harm being done him. Despite Daudet's valiant efforts to fight the entire Chamber single-voiced, he was obliged to succumb to the superior yells from the Socialists. After a vote had been taken condemning the action of the Royalists, he walked out of the Chamber amid hoots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Camelots du Roi | 6/11/1923 | See Source »

American naval experts assert that we should not violate even the spirit of the document in increasing the angle of our guns. Representative Madden, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, is sure that to do so would be a grievous violation of our good faith. The President himself must make the final decision. Three factors will probably be involved: 1) Whether the change is a violation of the treaty in spirit or letter; 2) Whether it would have undesirable consequences in the attitude of foreign nations to us; 3) Whether it would have any military value if Great Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Can We or Not? | 4/7/1923 | See Source »

...There is no doubt Jefferson and the old line "strict constructionists" would suffer grievous shocks today. More and more is the tendency becoming evident to turn to Washington to take up every problem that is proving in the least cantankerous for private interests to handle. "The Government" has become the magic formula for solving every difficulty and curing all ills. This is all the more curious in view of the Government's experience in operating private industry during the war. To prove this it is only necessary to turn to the railroads. There the outstanding evidence of Government control...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "COALESCENT" | 5/2/1922 | See Source »

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