Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Various badly informed groups have attacked the appointment of Mr. Daniels with absurd and even calumnious statements. The Government of Mexico is interested in correcting the 'supposition' that the new American Ambassador has been named by his Government 'as a discourteous act embracing a stern and fearful warning...
...then-Machado has a nightmare that some day Revolution may overthrow him. To placate his nightmare he is stern with unimportant revolutionaries, kind to important ones who may some day rule in his stead. Last week he pardoned Antonio Mendieta Lizaur, 18, nephew of an important Revolutionist, Col. Carlos Mendieta. In 1932 young Mendieta Lizaur was sentenced to eight years in jail on a charge of planting a bomb in the La Salle College laboratory. Last week he planned to join his uncle and Cuba's famed exile colony in Miami, Fla. (TIME, April 10), to help fan Revolution...
Commander Wiley then testified to a significant change of mind. The amazingly severe "gust" which had wrenched the Akron was not a gust at all, he decided, but the shock of the ship's stern striking the water. (He recalled that the "gust'' had blown no wind through the control car.) No second shock was felt. Hence the important deduction that the Akron had been broken not by wind but by water. However, Metalsmith Erwin still insisted that the ship was still flying tail in air when he saw the girders snap. When the tail...
Henceforth John Doctor may prescribe as much liquor as he pleases for any patient he pleases. But the patient must be bona fide. Otherwise sprightly Mr. Woodin, Secretary of the Treasury, may arrest John Doctor, and stern Mr. Cummings, the Attorney General, may throw him into jail...
...brown little Siamese in a white cap, hunched in the stern of a fragile racing shell on the Thames, barking shrill orders at eight lusty Britons who thrashed the grimy water with long oars, was the cynosure of 500,000 pairs of eyes for a few minutes one afternoon last week. He, Prince Komarakul-Na-Nagara, was coxswain of the Oxford varsity crew and for most of the first quarter of the race, his men held the lead he had shot them away to a few strokes after the start. But Cambridge pulled ahead at the mile and stayed there...