Word: stern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Along with periodical dictums on American freedom by those stern guardians of national safety J. Parnell Thomas and John Rankin, a statement by another authority has been receiving considerable publicity lately. His name-Thomas Jefferson. His words-"If there be any among you who wish to dissolve the Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left to combat...
Churchill denounced meticulous governessing. As he said "governessing," Churchill, who for all his age and greatness has never outgrown the small-boy look, stared hard at Cripps who, even in his youth, had the thin lips, the stern but not unkindly eye of the typical governess. And there was a further likeness: Cripps has always had the deep conviction of all good governesses that they know best...
...million Caronia will have the new Cunard look: single funnel, single mast, sharp clipper bow and a cruiser stern. The Caronia will carry only two classes on its nine decks, on winter cruises and the dollar-rich transatlantic trade. Britain has to get more of her share of that...
...eager to climb the dizzy heights of Matthews or Thayer on what may well be a fool's errand, or to peer in rooms suspiciously at embarrassed residents and their lady friends. If couples want to evade the law, there is little to stop them. "Chaperons" may suggest a stern body of older men who sit stiffly on the edge of their chairs and rivet their eyes on guilty pairs, but they are actually no more than friends from across the hall who can be privately instructed to gaze out the window...
Back in September 1940, a similar shortage forced President Roswell G. Ham to issue a stern edict forbidding the Maids of the Mount to use water for any except the most vital personal needs Baths and showers were out. The CRIMSON gallantly came to the rescue by wiring the Mount Holyoke Student Council that ". . . Harvard men find best way to make friends is sharing common bath facilities. . . Our showers are big enough for two, N.S.Y.P...