Word: sterner
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...been competing for the chosen places at Plattsburg since last April, for at the time of the first camp they were too young to enter. They spent hard months at Cambridge and hard weeks at Barre with a serious purpose, and when they were finally appointed for further and sterner competition, they entered with no trivial aims. The entire University may now read the list of newly commissioned officers with great satisfaction. Many more than three score Harvard men were given positions of authority by the Government. Their success only increases our admiration for them. But it likewise makes...
They master graver books, by sterner light...
...averse to tracing the certain future results of our present acts. If we do not seek the permanent now, it will be at the cost of our future satisfaction. As Mr. Phillips says, "Reform must come from within, not from without, and it will be brought about by a sterner sense of duty and a realization that the vain stampede after pleasure for pleasure's sake is leading us only to restlessness and discontent...
...East, it is fitting to consider for a brief moment the calamitous suffering now being endured all over Europe. Those happy thousands who today will pack the Stadium, with thoughts centered solely on the great football battle staged before them, may well afford to think also of the greater, sterner battles being fought elsewhere, where the yard-lines are trenches, and where even victory brings untold suffering...
...Sterner, J. W., journalism...