Word: harshness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Starlings also have a nondescript call of their own. "The greater part of it," says Ornithologist Aretas A. Saunders, "is sibilant, fricative [sounds of zh, sh, th], or harsh and rattling, but here and there the bird intersperses loud, clear, slurred whistles, most of them slurred downward. . . . The young, when gathering in their first flocks in June and committing depredations in cherry trees, make a loud grating or hissing noise...
...Oglethorpe (Hearst-admired) University, had a hand in killing a drugstore cashier. Dick Gallogly drove the getaway car. Another student fired the shots, confessed that he and his partner had robbed and killed "for the thrill." After two mistrials, Dick pleaded guilty, and along with rich George ("Junie") Harsh of Milwaukee was imprisoned for life. His grandmother moved heaven and earth and the Journal did its bit to get Dick out, failed to persuade three successive Governors to parole or pardon him. Pampered in prison but ailing, Dick Gallogly in a hospital last May married 23-year-old Vera Hunt...
...High-minded Chamberlain and grave Halifax, two Shakespearean characters in a tragic drama, spoke of right, of justice, of the moral problems of the conflict (see p. 27). Benito Mussolini, as befitted a student of Machiavelli, said little and made that little mean much or nothing (see p. 21). Harsh Molotov in Moscow jeered at hopeful democrats and alone of the world's spokesmen said nothing of war's misery-of which Adolf Hitler no less than Lenin showed himself fully conscious (TIME, Sept...
...others amounted to anything, but young Churchill had scarcely left the table when his Imperial career began. He went to Cuba during the rebellion against Spain as a war correspondent. Spain in Cuba seemed to him a model of all that Imperial rule should not be: irresponsible, wasteful, harsh, above all vindictive and vengeful. In India too he pondered (meanwhile playing polo, serving on the frontier, reading Gibbon, moral philosophy, history and military strategy) and after writing The River War, a description of the Sudan campaign, and a terrible novel, decided to take up literature and politics. Informing the voters...
...Because of severe winters there are more cases of tuberculosis in the North than in the South. Yet a higher proportion of Southerners than Northerners die from T.B. every year. Reason: the same harsh winds which often drive Northerners into sick beds also end by toughening them. Southerners living in a calm climate have no chance to develop their forces of resistance...