Word: harshness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...instruction. Indiana leads the way here, requiring 20 hours a semester of driving instruction in high schools. Third means of improvement is strict punishment. That this works was proven by Evanston, Ill., worst U. S. accident city of its size in 1928, safest now after inaugurating strict law enforcement, harsh penalties, immediate investigation...
...child was born dead. She turned against her husband, lived in dread of the future, while he became embittered, sullen, tried to forget his lost aspirations by exhausting himself hunting in the woods. They rented a one-room shack in German Flats, became the hired hands of a kindly, harsh-voiced old widow, until Gilbert was called out with the militia for an attack on the British near Fort Stanwix. In the ambush at Oriskany Gilbert was wounded, lost some of his friends, but found when he returned that he had rewon his wife's love. Thereafter the Martins...
...furrow round the seven hills with a span of oxen. Repeating the same gesture, Benito Mussolini in full-dress uniform strode across a vast field to where a brand new tractor plow was standing near a crowd of spectators. First came a speech with clenched fists, outthrust jaw, harsh voice, sweating brow...
George W. Beadle of the California Institute of Technology has been named assistant professor of Genetics for three years. Charles G. Haines, professor of Political Science at the University of California, will become a lecturer on Government for a half year. Charles M. Harsh, also of the same university, will take the position of instructor in Psychology for one year...
...real problems faced every Frenchman last week: 1) How to keep out of war; 2) What to do about the franc. About these two great issues most candidates were carefully vague. Bushy-lipped Deputy Henry Franklin-Bouillon, famed for his longtime insistence that the Treaty of Versailles was "not harsh enough," opened his campaign with the snort against such pussyfooting...