Word: sterner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reports of a new dormitory to be built on De Wolfe Street, which will be furnished with a sybaritic luxury and offer the conveniences of porters, servants and breakfasts in bed, recalls the sterner way in which our academic forbears lived at Harvard three centuries...
Theatre business on "the road" has fallen off alarmingly the last two years. This, conclude many authorities, is due to the fact that the risque, sophisticated productions of Broadway accord poorly with the sterner attitude of less teeming cities. But plans for next year indicate that "the road" will see more of the best...
...flayed charge (TIME, Dec. 20) that a "Bolshevist hegemony" is being set up in Nicaragua with Mexican support "between the U. S. and the Panama Canal." The United Press refused to spread this report, which was popped conveniently on the eve of a statement by Secretary Kellogg envisioning a sterner attitude toward Mexico...
...post-war U. S. of the '70s came one Jacob Dreicer, young pop-eyed Polish Jew, his ear-locks but recently sheared off his pious head. A sterner immigration guard would have suspected him of exopthalmic goitre. As it was, no difficulties were made against his landing at the Battery...
...Cambridge today, most of the other loading football teams are scheduled for minor encounters. Yale takes on Maryland, its traditional pre-big three rival while Dartmouth engages Boston University, Brown. Cornell Columbia, Army, Navy, and Boston College are also meeting weaker teams. Williams and Holy Cross will face sterner opposition in Wesleyan and Fordham, while Penn. State and Pennsylvania are staging a real battle on Franklin Field...