Word: gravest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tabouis's influence is not confined to France: her observations are syndicated abroad, are taken more seriously in England and the U. S. than they are at home. Last year a London Catholic journal, The Tablet, called her "one of the gravest of contemporary international dangers." Said The Tablet: "There is no era of history and no country of the world upon which she is not incompetent to write. . . . There can, indeed, be few other living writers who are as ignorant of anything as Mme Tabouis is of everything...
...farm problem is one of the New Deal's gravest. U. S. surpluses of corn and wheat would vanish like magic at ever rising prices. Greatest of all present economic problems is unemployment. During a prolonged war the problem would be to find not jobs but men-WPA would become a fantastic memory of an archaic era. The political as well as the economic problems of U. S. life would be entirely different...
...anyone. That has been his office all these years, while other Senators shuttle to & from the palatial marble Senate Office Building. One day last week more than a score of Senators took their way to Senator Johnson's lair to join in drafting a manifesto that constituted the gravest declaration of war yet made on Franklin Roosevelt. They said...
...gravest losses to the army and nation, the dead, missing and the prisoners, are irrelevant to the medical services." Major Brandi figured that of every 100 casualties in open warfare, 15 would be irrelevant dead, ten would be missing, 75 would be relevant wounded...
Nicolas Socrates Politis, the Greek minister to France, reported that a "state of gravest anxiety" had descended on Greece, but Greek Dictator John Metaxas had no inclination to be the first to stick his neck out at the onrushing aggressors. Dictator Mussolini might next decide that Greece constituted a "grave menace" to Italian rights. Instead, Dictator Metaxas jubilantly announced that Greek "independence and integrity are absolutely assured," but failed to say whether Britain or Italy had assured them. Dictator Metaxas hinted that he would not oppose British occupation of Corfu, but that he would...