Word: stern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stern powerhouse, Captain Toby Ross, 7-man Hal Grant, and Howie Weber at 6, kept the Crimson in the running, and when Tech began to fade at the mile and five sixteenths Henley Course mark, it was Coach Haines's more thorough conditioning program that turned the tide for the Crimson...
...Grand Rapids, a town famed for its furniture and its Dutch-descended population. His grandfather helped nominate Lincoln in 1860. His father, Aaron Vandenberg, was a harness-maker who was cleaned out in the Cleveland panic of 1893. After that, Father Vandenberg gave his son the stern ad monition: "Always be a Republican." In the government club at Grand Rapids' Central High School, young "Van," who had a flair for oratory, was the "Senator from Michigan." Few doubted even then that he would like to have the title in fact. He did odd jobs to help out the family...
...controversial subjects that divide Christendom, one of the most divisive is church unity. Two months ago, John D. Rockefeller Jr. made a well-intentioned plea for church unity (TIME, Feb. 12). Last week, as it must to all such pleas, came a stern rebuke. "Shocking," said Long Island's Anglo-Catholic (high church) Protestant Episcopal Bishop James P. De Wolfe, ". . . and contrary to the doctrine of the Church...
Even though we had seen sternly repressed flickers around the edges of his lips we never were quite sure that our moralizing disbursing teacher could really smile until Hugh Chalfant "gave him the word" last week. Hugh's courage certainly deserves public praise in the press (where no stern hand of retaliation rules as in the classroom), especially since from the rumors we've heard he will need something to warm his heart up in the Aleutians next winter...
...discipline which makes that string sound clear when it is fairly struck, could have overcome the paralyzing and crippling handicap of his young manhood. Behind the facade of cheerful health there must always have been a heritage of pain; his ease in public must have been earned by a stern asceticism in private...