Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week Allied air command had sober reason to think they could force the Luftwaffe into a decisive battle with only one result: elimination of Germany's air defenses. They had some reason to think that at least part of that task was already accomplished. Germany's airmen could still fight well-but not every...
Either the College was puritanical in those days or the local cafeterias were a far cry from the genteel Georgian and Hayes-Bick. Earlier College laws would indicate the former to be the case. For example, in 1655 students were required to"... weare modest and sober habit without strange, ruffian-like, or new-angled fashions, without lavish dresse for any excesses of aparal whatever," and they could not ".... weare long haire, locks or foretopps ..." nor indulge in the "... curling, crisping, parting or powdering their haire...
...Sober citizens blinked as if they had been slugged. Incredulously they read the news a second time, then reached dizzily for pencil and scratch pad. This week five veterans' organizations proposed that the prospective 11,000,000-odd veterans of World War II be paid bonuses of up to $4,500 each. Only the American Legion was missing from the list of sponsors: Veterans of Foreign Wars, Army and Navy Union, Disabled American Veterans, Military Order of the Purple Heart, Regular Veterans'Association. Bonuses would be figured at the rate of $3 a day for home service (with...
...Prime Minister opened on a sober note...
...film is gifted Director Lewis Milestone's best since All Quiet on the Western trout (1930). It is also extremely effective propaganda. But sober and well-informed cinemaddicts may have some doubts about it. The Purple Heart is fiction, but it is fiction about some still rather foggy historical facts. As it is very persuasively played, it is likely to be accepted as truth by a great many people not all of whom will be able to judge where fact ends and fiction begins...