Word: grimming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nearly 300 years, Laval University had been almost as grim and ascetic as its founder, François de Montmorency-Laval de Montigny, first bishop of Quebec. The bishop wore a hair shirt, watered his soup, slept on wood. The university, which De Laval started as a seminary in 1663, was cramped into narrow, grey stone buildings in Quebec City's huddled Quartier Latin. Its curriculum concentrated on theology, law and medicine. For diversion, students were expected to turn to religious reading or take meditative walks in the walled courtyard of the university...
...President, however, said he recognized that the present international situation is not without its aspects "sufficiently grim to frighten many...
They also set a grim front-page editorial that threatened the International Typographical Union with "full utilization of new typesetting processes. [We] feel that the monopolistic and illegal strangle hold of the I.T.U. on the nation's free press can be successfully broken...
Upstairs & Downstairs. Members of the U.S. colony in Budapest have dubbed the statue "the Tobacco Auctioneer." Hungarians say she holds the victory palm aloft because the grim, 18-ft. figure of a Russian soldier that stands below her on the pedestal might steal it. But these cracks fail to bother De Strobl. "The figure upstairs," he explains, "is international. The figure downstairs is Russian. Many Russians lost their lives here, after...
...have read these and other shock-slogans of fund-raising campaigns have felt the desired shiver. The tenth, who did not, was Albert Deutsch. Mr. Deutsch, who writes a medical and social welfare column in the New York Star, finally felt annoyed. Wrote Deutsch last week: "When the whole grim truth is told, one out of every one of us dies. Period. I am disturbed by the sustained note of terror in the slogans constantly tossed at us by worthy health organizations in efforts to pry loose . . . enough dollars to fight effectively some particular disease...