Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hard to decide whether grim comedy or tragedy is the prevailing note in the Bertrand Russell ouster [TIME, April 8]. There is plenty of both. The comedy is in the fact that his ouster will make not the slightest difference in sex morals statistics of the school from which he was fired, or of any school in the country. I've a notion that most college deans would agree with me that the average youngster goes to college with his moral pattern pretty well decided...
...Everywhere in France people showed they understood that the so-called phony war now belonged to the past, with the grim, clipped exclamation: "It has started!" Interviewed by New York Times-woman Anne O'Hare McCormick, Premier Reynaud warned: "I think the tendency in the United States has been to underestimate German strength...
...letter on this page, Professor William Yandell Elliott of the Government Department refers to his personal views on American neutrality as "extreme" and "incompatible with political responsibility." He is hardly exaggerating. In a recently published article, Elliott answers with a grim negative the question, "Can America Risk Isolation?" His arguments for a more vigorous defense of Uncle Sam's selfish international interests are at once the most compelling and the most treacherous which the American people must resist in their fight to stay out of World...
...tightening of the Allied blockade which proved so grim for Scandinavia, also stirred the Balkans. German shells and bombs are made from Swedish steel, but airplanes are built of duralumin, a copper alloy of aluminum, which is extracted from bauxite. Since the war began Germany has been dependent for bauxite almost entirely on Hungary and Yugo slavia, which produce 22% of the world tonnage...
...came together like so many well-fitting bicuspids, to celebrate a century of scientific dentistry. The dentists had good cause to show their teeth in pride, for as an art, U. S. dentistry is the world's finest. From the days when Dentist Isaac Greenwood supplied grim-lipped George Washington with a set of wooden teeth (they splintered), a set of iron teeth (port wine rusted them), and a dressy set of bone teeth, U. S. dentists have come...