Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ruthless Davila. Though genial by nature, President Davila realized that if he is not to fall a second time stern measures must be taken. When railway and other strikes broke out in sympathy with Col. Grove the new Davila Government sent soldiers to run some of the trains, suspended other service. Despatches smuggled past the censor purporting to tell of counterrevolutions in various parts of Chile were firmly, officially denied, and that was that...
...life prior to this year,--in fact three seats behind him, at number 5 is the very man, Mac Bancroft, who rowed in a Browne and Nichols crew which defeated the Cassedy-stroked Nobles eight in 1929. . .Bob Saltonstall and Ben Bacon, the two other members of the veteran stern four have proved themselves for three years able to take some of the weight off Cassedy's shoulders when the stroke is raised, which is the most important duty of numbers 7 and 6. . ."Woof" Hallowell, brother of last year's Varsity captain, and a member of this same stern...
...mold his mind into stern channels the young Prince received as his first tutor General Nogi, famed for his bloody capture of Port Arthur. When Emperor Meiji died, Tutor Nogi impressed his pupil by reviving the custom of junshi (''following in death"). He and Mrs. Nogi committed harakiri. Two years later the Crown Prince received a: tutor the resolute Admiral Togo who had destroyed the entire Russian fleet at the Battle of the Sea of Japan and who remains alive to this day, telling the tale...
...following the shakeup after the Penn defeat, consisted mostly of long slow paddles rowed at excessively low strokes in order to establish the balance. For the most part the two crews paddled separately, and there were no time trials. On Friday, Bancroft and Saltonstall resumed their places in the stern four leaving Nickerson, Hovey, Erickson, and Armstrong in that order in the bow four. Saturday Coach Brown took the reins when Coach Whiteside went to Ithaca to look over his crew's next opponents, and yesterday work set in again in earnest. This week the Varsity crew's power will...
...delicate matter of contact with customers. He has often so genially laughed off his "inability" to lend money that the would-be borrower has gone off chuckling, convinced. Willing to see anybody, with a laugh and a backslap for almost all, he has never wavered when approached by such stern banking problems as foreclosing on a friend...