Word: solemnizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everywhere the carolers would walk slowly past lighted candles, singing the old familiar songs, in the thin voices of the young, sometimes off-key. And as Christmas Eve ended, there would come the solemn, beautiful midnight Masses of the Roman Catholic Church...
...block wardens met at 8 p.m. in the Borough Hall. It was like a town meeting. The atmosphere was serious, solemn, a little ponderous. They were practical men, met to discuss practical steps to be taken. Nobody suggested the extreme improbability of the Luftwafte bombing this little country town; all the discussion, all the questions centered about the practical details of what to do when the Luftwaffe came...
...Solemn Chairman Walter F. George of the Senate Finance Committee, decided that taxes are already as high as they should go. He forecast that the national debt, now about $55 billion, might reach the fantastic height of $150 billion...
Prince Takahito Mikasa, 26-year-old brother of Emperor Hirohito of Japan, posed with his 18-year-old bride, Yuriko Takagi, for a solemn wedding picture...
Hermit hoar, in solemn cell...