Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Governor Paul Dever has announced, in conjunction with several other governors in the country, that this is World Government Week. This puts a sort of official blessing on the grim efforts of small bands of crusaders all over the nation to persuade Americans "that world peace can be created and maintained only under a world federal government," to quote to a recent United World Federalist manifesto. In the Harvard community, the local World Federalist membership is stumping from House to House, passing out literature, biscuits, and coffee--and patiently answering both candid questions and polite sneers that the Federalists...
...Outlook Grim...
...squad's meager practice makes the Crimson's outlook especially grim. In the past two weeks the team has had only one game with Milton, and a bare 20 minutes of practice yesterday afternoon. All this has made the players fairly rusty. Ever since Pete Lawson replaced Jack Snelling as center for the high scoring Morgan Hatch and Nat Harris pair, the new line hasn't had enough time to get used to working together...
...marriageable age in Germany today, there are 166 women. The figure, a consequence of war, simply means that a lot of German soldiers did not come home. It also means that many others came back like the anonymous German who appeared in a news picture last week, as a grim symbol of postwar German life. He hobbled along on one leg, while his buddy carried his new artificial limb in his rucksack...
Last week, Kentucky's grim basketballers took the ax to Alabama (74-32), then ran Mississippi through the grinder (85-31). Next on the list was Georgia Tech. One man from Tech heatedly denied that the team was worried about the trip to Lexington. Said he in a slow drawl: "We adore playing them, because when they get beat they take it so hard." But Kentucky, currently ranked No. i by the nation's sportwriters' poll,* hadn't lost a home game in seven years. Down went Georgia Tech...