Word: sterner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Princeton football coach Charlie Cald well recently called for sterner penalties for unnecessary roughness. His statement came after halfback Dick Kazmaier suffered a broken nose in the Princeton-Dartmouth game Saturday...
Like the imperial Caesars, Producer Sam (King Solomon's Mines) Zimbalist and Director Mervyn (Anthony Adverse) LeRoy rely on these circuses to keep their audience diverted from sterner matters. For all the majesty of the theme and magnificence of the trimmings, the story of Quo Vadis, based on Henryk Sienkiewicz' 1895 novel, never rises much above the level of a good melodrama...
...continuity of British life, in the strength of the fabric of its body politic-of so much sterner stuff, despite all buffetings, than that of any other European nation-in its fidelity to the old standards, combined with its curiosity about new horizons-in all these things there is evidence that the feelings of men like Eccles and Lloyd are shared by the great majority of Britons. How far they are shared, the poll next week will show...
What gave the President's message a hollow and political ring was a fact he notably failed to mention: wages and farm prices, just as much as manufacturers' prices, need sterner control...
...Russia, to be sure, presents the same "seller's market" conditions that prevailed in the United States during war, but these conditions did not undermine the United States economy, and it is difficult to conceive of their undermining Russia's especially in view of the tighter controls and much sterner repressive measures available to the Russians...