Word: sternest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This very literacy, plus the proletarian character of the only partially assimilated immigrant population, has given Argentine politics their pronounced Socialist trend, a trend which only sternest measures by a series of strong Socialist Presidents has halted on the brink of Bolshevism...
...Sternest purists applauded this firm, stand against illegitimate questions about France, asked in bad faith...
...after five in summer, must be ready at any time for inspection, take military exercises in the afternoon, must be in bed at ten, must fill literally a thousand requirements--make the life hard. West Point takes justifiable pride for that. Exacting selection of men to enter the academy, sternest possible training after they enter, and ten weeks' freedom in four years' time--it brings to mind almost the mortification of the flesh by Christian monks and the ideals of feudal chivalry...
...Englander's speech that Miss Brown gave, and when Miss Lowell rose to reply, her reply was in terms of New England: two poems, one of a New England garden; one, the famous and beautiful Lilacs. Here are three women who adequately interpret the best of America, the sternest and the kindliest moods of the maligned Puritan tradition...
...violate the law unless it places one in a position of dominant control," which this fusion did not do, since Swift & Co. does more business than Armour and Morris combined. (Of all animals killed last year, Swift killed 24.2%, Armour-Morris 23.5%.) Besides, the big packers find that their sternest competition is with the 1,300 smaller packers...