Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which an exceeding large number fall by the probationary wayside. There it is that the first dawn of Harvard begins to glow in the minds of the harassed Freshman. There he may see for the first time the early kindness of the first few days give way before the grim reality of hard labor necessary to maintain the required standards of a Harvard education...
...Sarajevo's so-called "athletic associations" mounted vigorous guard. Slowly the cart creaked to Sarajevo's cemetery and there proud gravediggers buried the bones of the archconspirator who instigated Student Gavrilo Princip to assassinate Austria's Crown Prince, the Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Who was this archconspirator? Outside the grim circle of his admirers, his name is scarcely known, but Sarajevo has waited and schemed 17 years for a chance to bury Vladimir Gachinovich...
...White House he slept to the tattoo of pneumatic drills demolishing one of the remaining walls. His desk was set in the Oval Room, where Abraham Lincoln's once stood. There he settled down to attack the great problem he had seen with his own eyes, the grim reality of Drought...
Into Mr. Hart's office soon marched the Military Governor of Havana Province, grim Major Diaz Calderon, escorting a Cuban engineer, Eduardo Montoulieu. whom President Mendieta had appointed Government Interventor in charge of Cuban Telephone. They demanded Mr. Hart's resignation. He demanded some sort of assurance from the Cuban Government that they were not attempting outright confiscation. Doors were closed and a mighty haggle ensued...
...clock next morning, a special train roared into Hanover, equipped as a General Staff Headquarters and from it alighted a grim, middle-aged officer who stepped briskly across the platform to Old Paul...