Word: solemn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Family Affairs In Paris, Garry Davis, 26, solemn-minded son of bouncy Bandleader Meyer, had had time to think things over. It had been three months since he renounced his U.S. citizenship to underline his enthusiasm for world government (TIME, June 7). After a talk with his sister last week he explained why he might come back to the U.S. (the State Department will probably not be too tough about it): "It is not my purpose to create doubt and confusion...
...York, Dewey's Secretary Paul Lockwood brusquely retorted that the governor felt "a solemn obligation to lay fully and frankly before the American people his views on world affairs...
Inside the stars, where the temperature may reach a "scorching" 20 million degrees centigrade, thermonuclear reactions are constantly at work changing hydrogen into helium. The University of Chicago's Dr. Otto Struve, head of the 42-man U.S. delegation, repeated a solemn prediction: in 3 billion years some stars will have burned up most of their hydrogen, leaving the helium "as 'ashes' of this stupendous nuclear transformation furnace...
...keep Argentines from noticing Peronista political shenanigans, the government had whooped up the annual celebration of the reconquest of Buenos Aires from the British in 1806. There were parades and solemn ceremonies in the Plaza de Mayo, and symbolic torches were rushed to every corner of the country. But there were no torches to light the last hours of the parliamentary system that generations of Argentines had struggled to maintain...
...Easter [1947] High Mass was the most gripping and solemn service I ever experienced. Sixty Lutheran P.O.W.s from the Bible belt near Bielefeld, Germany, approached me on Holy Saturday night and asked for permission to come to our Catholic liturgy and Holy Communion. My heart stood still for a moment. By questioning them, I found out that all of them believe in the Real Presence,† that nearly all of them were used to confessing their sins, and all knew how to elicit perfect contrition. All had been baptized . . . by believing Lutheran ministers...