Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...widely conceded to the building. On the northwest edge of the Loop, it rises from the murky Chicago River directly across from the unquestionably beautiful Chicago Daily News Building & Plaza. But the acoustics are not yet so good as in the famed old Auditorium. And it contains, apparently, a grave psychological error: In placing the boxes the architect seems to have forgotten that Society is an essential to successful opera. As in cinemansions the boxes are across the back almost in a straight line instead of in a deep horseshoe. The front railings are high. Socialites are far from...
...briefly mention some of these changes. . . . There has been a gradual decrease in working hours and a betterment of working conditions, with increases in wages . . . with the consequent benefits in the way of better homes, improved standards of living, better schools, civic improvements. . . . But we had another grave industrial problem growing out of the inventive genius of mankind . . . [which] while lifting burdens from the shoulders of the workers . . . released large numbers . . . who were compelled to seek other employment." Among occupations dangerously overdeveloped he named the bituminous coal, textile and agricultural industries. He wrote: "After nearly ten years of experience...
...wish that there were journalistic allies by our side. We wish that the Atlantic Monthly, Harpers, Scribners, were with us. We wish that the Nation, the New Republic, the Outlook (Lyman Abbott must have turned over in his grave when that paper recently became the most liquor-soaked organ in the country), the Literary Digest, TIME, the Forum, the World Tomorrow, or any other of the major weeklies were with us. But they are not. One dares to hope that among them one or two converts may yet be made...
...Augsburg, Germany, Annie Rossmeier, 16, and Fanny Schlegel, 18, were placing flowers on the grave of Annie's mother. The 300-lb. monument fell, killed Annie, wounded Fanny...
Exactly opposite is the tone of the Irwin Plan. The viceroy, a kindly Englishman, gives reign to his emotions, urges that "we spare no efforts and even take some risks," admits that "it would be a grave mistake to underestimate [the] force or depreciate [the] value" of St. Gandhi's movement, concludes, "[I] have endeavored to point the way to ... place upon the constitution the first definite impress of Dominion status...