Word: stern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME, Oct. 26) was gathering cautious headway amid all this tumult. The noted Communists* arrested a fortnight ago were arraigned at a Magistrate's hearing, and Sir Travers Humphreys, acting for the director of Public Prosecutions, set forth the new policy of the Baldwin Government in resorting to stern measures against the Reds, as follows...
Several times in the last seven years the Italian Government has shaken a stern, denying finger at rich U. S. citizens who have tried to buy objects from the collection of Achillito Chiesa of Milan. Chiesa before the War acquired a great gallery of pre-Renaissance painting, including a triptych by Orcagna, a picture each of Simone, Martini and Bellini, 1,200 other paintings of the 11th to 16th Centuries, early enamels, ivories, textiles, furniture, porcelain, faience, majolica. He bought Correggio's Holy Family, Filippino Lippi's most celebrated Madonna and Child, works by Duerer, Van Cleff, Mabuse...
...Stern Frenchmen opined that the Druses would heed permanently such a warning that they must not murder Christians, pillage caravans, or continue to ambush French regiments. The Druses replied by engaging the French in battle with what weapons they can command for three entire days. At the end of that the French forces evacuated Suedia after an occupation of 36 hours, "on account of lack of water," according to French communiques, and took up a position at Messei Frey...
...early Massachusetts, and the London of James II and William III and the early life of the colonies, Kenneth Ballard Murdock '16, Instructor in English at the University, has formed his biography, "Increase Mather, The Foremost American Puritan." Mr. Murdock's volume is a fully documented vindication of the stern old Puritan's character. The story of his connection with Harvard College in its earliest years is fully told. This book will be published October...
...second morning following the fall, the farmer on whose land the 450 ft. stern of the ship fell charged $1.00 to admit each automobile into his field, and 25 cents for each pedestrian. Drinking water was priced at 10 cents a glass...