Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cities with an official toxicologist is New York, which has Dr. Alexander Oscar Gettler, a hard-bitten professor who teaches chemistry at New York University when he is not sleuthing for the city with his test-tubes. Last week Dr. Gettler. taking with him a grim array of bones, knives, vials and photographs, went before the American Institute in Manhattan to deliver a public lecture on his specialty. He has shared in some 30,000 autopsies, "which gave me a training and experience unobtainable at the present time in any other city in the world." He told about some...
Last week a salvage vessel fished up part of the control car of the U. S. S. Akron from the sea floor off Barnegat Lightship. This grim sequel did not appear to weigh gravely on the mind of Commander Alger Herman Dresel, one-time captain of both the Los Angeles and the Akron, as he stepped into the control car of the Akron's sister ship in a red dawn two days later. His wife and daughter were looking on, 105 souls were aboard when Captain Dresel commanded, "Up ship!" and the brand-new U. S. S. Macon...
...eighth wonder. Dr. Herrick is a born pedagog, inspiring, able to induce a desire for knowledge and to get results. He has a wealth of anecdotal and related information which makes the driest, application of Grimm's law or the third rule for the use of the subjunctive less grim, and the dullest passage of Immensee romantic and entrancing; still he tolerates few irrelevant digressions. His sympathy with his students is that of a man who understands their difficulties and makes the path as smooth as possible, yet he never slights thoroughness...
...Still standing are the outer walls of Silesian sandstone and much of the interior, ornately marbled. France paid for the whole building as part of the Franco-Prussian War indemnity. Above the main door a grim stone figure of St. George frowns with the face of Iron Chancellor Bismarck...
...budget battling last week was grim, real, exciting. Premier Daiadier hammered the reluctant Senate into completely reversing itself on the issue of cutting half a billion francs ($19,800,000) from expenditures for national defense. Fortnight ago crusty Senate oldsters rejected this cut 168 to 129. Last week they passed it 180 to 118-amid furious gesticulations and sighs of despair from the French General Staff...