Word: harshness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...part is that of a lunchroom waitress brought home to preside over the stormy table of a Minnesota farmer and his son. The farmer is harsh and dominant. The son is a trifle watery. He is also her husband. She spends her evening trying to distil him into a valid beverage with which to floor the father...
...Every bit of anthracite produced is smeared with blood. That is a gruesome thought, but harsh words may be necessary to awaken public opinion and a more or less sonmolent industry to a proper degree of responsibility in the premises. . . . "It may be that the operators may again suggest to the mine workers the arbitration of points of differences. The mine workers position on that question, if and when presented, will be just the same today as yesterday, the same in 1925 as in 1923. Why? Because, when a man who toils in your collieries agrees to let some third...
TIME is frank with itself; TIME is likewise frank with its readers. Frankness breeds discontent at times; discontent brings complaint, sometimes valid, more often invalid. TIME, in its unique way, says things at times that hit home with a bang-its criticisms are harsh -its adjectives ever are pointed as daggers- it portrays the world a bit cynically yet interestingly-it sees good in some, bad in others, worse in a few, and in so doing pacifies the thinker and makes the gullible thing. That is a mighty achievement; certainly it should overshadow the minor errors that too often arouse...
...time, even the personal element entered into what at first appeared to be an entirely impersonal matter, and now we know what to expect when certain classmates begin to talk. So do the professors, and many are the satirical and harsh comments that fall from their contemptuous lips. They lose no opportunity to inform us that only 250 of us will be allowed to return next September...
WHITE CARGO?Under the Harsh suns of Africa, the morals of men curl up and crack. In this instance, the suns are assisted in no small part by native women...