Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Relacing its graduating present, William M. Flook '44, the board elected Richard M. Brown '45 of Arlington and Adams House to the position Philip M. Stern '47 of new Orleans and Adams house was chosen Production Director...
...will, launch local attacks. But he cannot pit his 220 Nazi and satellite divisions against the Red Army's estimated 275 wellarmed, well-led divisions with any chance of success. Today, Russia's might and the Allied threat in the west make upon him two stern demands: i) He must establish a strong defense line somewhere on the Eastern Front, and 2) he must hoard his precious reserves of men and materiel...
...boats' armament included new torpedoes, evidently derived from magnetic and sonic mines with which the British long since learned how to cope. Attracted toward a ship's stern by the metal mass, the torpedoes exploded automatically when they came within the radius of the propeller vibrations. Once the propellers were crippled or destroyed, the ship was then an easy mark for conventional torpedoes...
...Stern Sir Andrew, 59, a veteran of Gallipoli, had just finished winning World War II's epic naval Battle of the Mediterranean. Since 1939, first as commander of the British Mediterranean Fleet, finally as commander of the Allied Mediterranean fleet, he had hunted for the Italians, sought to turn mare nostrum into mare Britannicum. His quest had ended in September 1943, at Malta, where the Italian Fleet surrendered. Now, as the Battle of the Atlantic flared with new violence, Sir Andrew set another sight...
Premier Hideki Tojo had warned Japan that she was on the threshold of "emergency" (TIME, Oct. 4). Heeding his stern voice, the Cabinet last week obediently voted...