Word: stern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...caused a revolution but has rather gone back to the prescientific era in genetics. Lysenko's experiments are reported without exact data and his interpretations are deduced from vague, amateurish concepts. . . . Genetics is a progressive science, welcoming expert criticism, but Lysenko's is disappointing. CURT STERN Professor of Experimental Zoology University of Rochester Rochester...
Labor's good friend in Philadelphia, J. David Stern's New Dealish Record, addressed an "emergency call" to C.I.O.'s anti-Communist Boss Phil Murray. Said the Record: Philadelphia's electrical workers "have been so misled that they are flatly defying our courts and all constituted authority. . . . Constituted Government has only one answer to that. We've tried to tell this to the C.I.O. leaders. No go. Maybe they will listen to you. We hope so. For the sake of the C.I.O., and the future of the labor movement in America...
...likes practical jokes. One time in Hollywood, he wore a false beard home, begged for food at his own back door, was promptly kicked out by his stern cook...
...Cornell's faculty. The next year she became the first woman dean of Cornell's New York State College of Home Economics. She looked pretty austere when she arrived, with her hair done up in a bun, and no hat. But Cornell coeds soon found that the stern face softened easily into a friendly, crooked smile. Until Dean Blanding marched in with her spaniel Shadow, no dog had ever crossed the decorous threshold of Cornell's Martha Van Rensselaer Hall. Within a week dogs were almost as common there as professors. Each spring she was the first...
...minister-"good-looking, as female preachers are apt to be." But like most of the local Quakers, Eliza believed that music was "a popish dido, a sop to the senses, a hurdle waiting to trip man in his upward struggle." She had to give Jess a pretty stern nudge in the ribs every seventh month, fourth day (Fourth of July), when Amanda Prentis hurdled the high notes of The Star Spangled Banner...