Word: sterner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grind through signal practice by artificial light. In fact, all this practicing is mighty hard work; ever so much more work than brain work. There is a malicious popular belief that football players are not naturally inclined toward brain work. This is unfair: football players have merely chosen the sterner course. Many more fail at this course than at brain-courses. Only a few men each year, out of dozens of candidates, win their letter. It is much more difficult to earn an H than an A. B. All honor, then, to those who aim at one letter rather than...
Herrmann is the Crimson hurler who will match his skill with that of Captain Trumbower this afternoon. He has started only one game this year, having won that handily from Catholic University last week, allowing the visitors only five hits. He is sure to meet competition of a much sterner sort this afternoon, and he will have a dangerous opponent in the Brown leader who throws and bats left-handed. Trumbower has turned in a better record this year than any of Coach Snell's hurlers, although he is naturally a fielder, conscripted to the pitching string this year...
...University. Small persons of three, four and five years, instead of keeping their doting parents at home by their screechings and other forms of infantile hilarity, can now be left to exercise their lungs as they see fit in a day nursery, while fathers and mothers attend to the sterner matters of life in the lecture room...
...first prize in the Conservatoire at Vienna; at 12, the Prix de Rome at the Paris Conservatoire; at 14, he toured the U. S. with Moritz Rosenthal, was hailed as a "wonder-child." He returned to Austria for required general military service, returned to Austria again to sterner service...
...career, came Death last week. He died in Manhattan after an operation for acute appendicitis. To his bier flocked many celebrated painters, Art patrons, writers-Ignacio Zuloaga, Charles Dana Gibson, Frank Crowninshield, Joseph Hergesheimer, Guy Pepe Du Bois, Joseph Pennell, John Sloane, Robert Henri, Robert W. Chanler, Albert Sterner, Gari Melchers, A. Sterling Calder...