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Word: graver (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...semieducated cliques, Snow concludes, perhaps the more dangerous are the nonscientific intellectuals. It is they who still manage the Western world, without any real understanding of the power at their command. Their ignorance began in the industrial revolution, and has graver consequences by the year. The English university "trained its young men for administration, for the Indian Empire, for the purpose of perpetuating the culture itself, but never in any circumstances to equip them to understand the revolution or take part in it ... The academics had nothing to do with the industrial revolution; as Corrie, the old Master of Jesus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Two Western Cultures | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

...Incan Indian appears to have been delivered because of a slovenly mix-up of orders at the Philadelphia foundry that made it. When the wrong Indian arrived in Cuzco, with three feathers in the hair and a bow in the hand, Cuzco happened to be preoccupied by graver matters: a typhoid epidemic that reduced the population from 60,000 to 11,000. All records of the transaction with the foundry were lost around 1880 when a government building caved in, and Cuzco preferred not to listen to the skeptics. Says Cuzco Historian Enrique Gamarra Hernández: "Atahuallpa was never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERU: Anybody Here Seen . . .? | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

Against him, some U.S. economists argue that to equate past and present price upcreep is unsound, that creeping inflation is a graver menace than it used to be. Economist Burns points out that the past few decades have gradually brought two new inflationary factors into the U.S.'s economic structure: 1) Big Labor's power to force wages up even when demand is falling, and 2) Big Business' tendency to eliminate price competition, set profitable "administered prices," and restrict cornpetition to quality, styling, service, etc. The combined result, says Burns, is that instead of slipping downward when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: BATTLE BEHIND THE BUDGET BATTLE | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

Revolts, republics, revolutions, most No graver than a schoolboy's barring out Too comic for the solemn things they are Too comic for the solemn things in them...

Author: By Peter E. Quint, | Title: Times Out of Joint | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

...plain fact remains that the situation would be far graver and the peril to world peace much greater if the United States Government had indulged in appeasement or procrastination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE U.S. PRESS ON LEBANON | 7/28/1958 | See Source »

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