Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have an underprivileged, discontented group in her midst. Those, so callous as to disregard the feelings of the group itself, should consider the harm such a condition does to a unity more important than that existing in the different Houses. For the House problem at present is a serious menace to the unity of the college...
...TIME's readers, thanks for these and other candid criticisms. All are hereby remanded to TIME's Cinema Editor for serious study...
...hand, and having the referendum on the other. The Council was aware of the disadvantages of having a referendum on such short notice. The disadvantage of holding the elections in the face of a widespread--perhaps a majority, for all we knew--oppositions, the Council decided was more serious. On the wisdom of this decision there can be honest disagreement. I do not think its sincerity can honestly be questioned...
Most unusual of Mrs. Hughes-Hallett's fiestas was one for Dr. Emil Rothman on his return from Cleveland after a serious abdominal operation. Suddenly a long-faced butler wheeled a hospital operating table into the centre of the drawing room, with careful solemnity folded the sheets back, revealing a dummy with a pink tissue-paper stomach. The "stomach" was split open and out came spaghetti and link sausages...
...Striking a solid object at 25 will do you and your car about the same damage as if you had driven off a two-story building. Encountering a stone wall at 50 will be just as serious as if you had dropped from an eight-story building...