Word: graver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chinese President Chiang Kai-shek ripped open at Nanking last week an urgent telegram from Governor Chang Hsueh-liang of Manchuria: "THE SITUATION IS GROWING GRAVER EVERY MINUTE. I REQUEST INSTRUCTIONS WITH REGARD TO DEALING WITH PROVOCATIVE AND BELLIGERENT SOVIET TROOPS IN AN APPROPRIATE MANNER...
...Gordon Hewart, Baron Hewart of Bury. Mr. Chief Justice William Howard Taft of the U. S. Supreme Court introduced him. Lord Chief Justice Hewart denounced bureaucracy in government and then, once a newspaperman himself, loudly decried current tendencies in the press as menaces to society even graver than Communist propaganda. Chief Justice Taft courteously and instructively surveyed the English origins...
...75th year. I have been for the best part of half a century in public life. I was Prime Minister for a longer consecutive term and had to face graver responsibilities than any of my predecessors during the last hundred years. For a still longer time I have been leader of the Liberal Party...
Such a hope is practically rendered impotent by the fundamental difficulty of religion,--the difficulty of determining a creed which will satisfy all conceptions of the Divine Power and Purpose. In this age of individuality, this difficulty is graver than ever before; and, in the past, church unity has always split on that rock of a universal creed...
...Maurice Despret, a banking genius of Belgium and President of the Congress, threw the first bomb into the proceedings by attacking, not the justice of the Experts' (Dawes) Plan, but its feasibility. Grave doubt exists in the minds of many ex-Allied economists on this point and still graver doubts are entertained by many Germans. But that anybody should have publicly thrown a wet blanket over the Plan was a possibility too disconcerting for thought. Yet, it happened. Allied countries were horror-stricken. Germans jubilated...