Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your reference to me and "Frau X" is a gross distortion. As readers of the story know, "Frau X's" only crime was to defend Communism consistently in a conversation lasting several hours...
...editorial in Monday's CRIMSON entitled "Deans for Dinner" contains several gross errors and distortions of fact which ought not to be allowed to stand unchallenged...
Even more serious is the gross misconception of the function of the Dean's office which is implied in the editorial. Phrases such as, "an official charged with regulating students' personal conduct," and "strictly disciplinary fellows like the present Assistant Deans," are used. The fact is that probably less than one per cent of the cases that come to the Dean's Office are disciplinary cases, and there may well be more disciplinary cases handled in the Houses now than in University Hall. Almost all of the work of the Dean's Office consists of trying to deal with...
Some 21 years and millions of heartaches later, they started all over again . . . Bombs came by the gross and changed great cities into masses of smoking rubble, and when people said, "A war to end all wars," they prayed to God it would be so. More important, they believed that victory, purchased at so fearful a price, had given them a second opportunity to create, at last, that free, new world of peace . . . But no. There is a fly in the ointment. Once more we seem doomed to repeat that awful cycle of murder and destruction . . . Why then should...
...social life becomes intolerable, if not impossible, unless justice and benevolence govern the operations of the state and relationships between individuals and groups . . . Expressions such as 'my life is my own affair,' ... or 'in politics anything goes' are all too common today. They betray a gross misunderstanding of the moral order...