Word: solemnizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...White House, Steve Early took him to see Mrs. Roosevelt, and it was she who told him the solemn news...
...White House was in confusion. Cabinet members and heads of war agencies had arrived, grave and solemn-faced. Newsmen scurried about, buttonholing everyone; except for Steve Early, the White House secretariat had collapsed with grief. Shortly before 7 p.m. the Trumans, the Cabinet members and other bigwigs gathered in the green-walled Cabinet Room. Harry Truman, not quite at ease, sat down nervously in a brown leather chair. When Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone strode in, Harry Truman rose, clasped a Bible between his hands, stood stiffly underneath Seymour Thomas' portrait of Woodrow Wilson. The clock on the mantel...
Except for other brief tenures as lecturer, Bancroft held only one other notable job, as librarian of the State Department from 1888 to 1892. A bachelor, he joined Washington's old, exclusive Metropolitan Club in 1891. A pleasant but solemn man, he was known to fellow members as a "very retiring and quiet sort." Historians respect his excellent studies of the South (Slave-Trading in the Old South, The Negro in Politics...
...consider it our solemn duty both to our flocks and to our own nations to express what in our view are the principles without which peace based on justice cannot be restored...
...Oklahoma, spent many months of his time (and hundreds of other people's) and $25,000 of federal (WPA) and University funds in counting and tabulating 6,012,359 words in 100,212 compositions by as many first-to-eighth-grade pupils in 708 U.S. schools. His solemn purpose : to determine what words are used to what extent by what pupils so that teachers may use such words to such an extent in instructing such pupils...