Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After reading this pleasant book of travel you will be more prone to appreciate the latent qualities, and feel more kindly towards the sometimes stern, dogmatical figure on the rostrum in your lecture hall...
...about 80 officers and men, and its rolling stock consists of hundreds of the most powerful submarine mines in existence. . . . When the order is given to lay mines, the sinister 'train' is set in motion. Its speed can be regulated, and as each mine arrives at the stern it is man-handled through an open port and dropped into the sea. ... In less than half an hour the Adventure could render many square miles of sea most unhealthful to navigation. . . . Multiply by two the explosive force of the largest Wartime mine, remembering that the Adventure carries hundreds...
Sent to Indo-China as Governor-General, Tomcat Sarraut lost several more lives in a stern, successful effort to put down native rebellions and buttress unshakably the Chinese cornerstone of French empire. At a reception a native with a bomb shook the Governor-General's hand, grew nervous under his steady gaze, lost courage, shuffled on down the reception line, then turned and threw the bomb which blew a great hole in the floor near M. Sarraut. Few months later another bomb, hurled directly at the Governor-General, missed him by inches, rolled among a crowd and blew twelve...
...Three-Year Plan of economic development supervised by U. S. experts. To her tenth birthday party last week came the second most notable man in the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, dashing Red War Minister Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov who is definitely more popular though less potent than stern Red Dictator Stalin...
...starting line-up for Harvard will be: Nichols, g.; Grey, r.f.b.; Chase, l.f.h.; Stern, r.h.b.; Thacher, c.h.b.; Kellog, l.h.b.; Dawson, r.o.f.; Seeman, r.l.f.; Clark, c.f.; Kelley, l.i.f.; Kandolan, l.o.f...