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Word: sternly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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That little opportunity exists for outward manifestations of unrest was evident from the fact that His Imperial Majesty keeps a tight rein on the army, maintains a force of 20,000 of his best-clothed, best-fed, best-paid soldiers in Teheran, This week the stern dictator's men were making the rounds of households along the route of the contemplated state drive of His Imperial Majesty, warning citizens to display flags, hang out banners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: 20th-Century Darius | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

...Misses Victoria Glaser as Belinda, Barbara S. Miller as the First Witch. Evelyn Stern as the Second Witch; John Eric 1G as the Sorcerer, Charles Ashmore '38 as Mercury, and Robert Cochrane, Jr. '39 as the Sailor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOWELL HOUSE GIVES OPERA TONIGHT AT 8:30 | 4/20/1938 | See Source »

...position to have their names attached to accounts which they have written and forwarded to their superiors. These tell of countless cases in which the prestige of the white man in the Orient was still sufficient at Nanking during the worst days for a judicious word, a stern remonstrance or a gentle but firm use of physical strength to do much. More than one Japanese soldier, raping a Chinese woman in broad daylight in the streets of Nanking, was chased off by a white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Basket Cases | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

...male leads are handled by John H. Eric '37, 1G, Charles DeL. Ashmore '38, David P. McAllester '38, and Robert C. Cochrane, Jr., '39. Recruited from the Radcliffe Choral Group, the feminine soloists will be Norma Nasmyth '39, Victoria Glaser '40, Barbara R. Miller '40, and Evelyn Stern '39. A small string orchestra has been drawn from several quarters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dido Loves Aeneas in Rehearsals for Lowell Opera; Radcliffe Ringers Used | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

...Like Picasso and de Chirico, he was tapped by the surrealists in the '20's but stayed outside the club. In 1930 Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art gave him the first big U. S. exhibition. When Germany became inclement to modern art five years ago, stern-faced, gentle Fantasist Klee settled near his birthplace in Berne, Switzerland, to paint, play Mozart with his wife, study nature. Last week's show at Manhattan's Buchholz Gallery was the largest, most comprehensive he has ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Ideas & Illuminations | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

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