Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both the Middies and the Crimson are acknowledged to have the best forward bulwarks in the recent history of the two institutions. When the cannonading starts at 2 o'clock the Blue and Gold wall will be complete from stem to stern, including 250 pound Gene Flathmann who is to mammoth Vern Miller what the Tyranausourous Rex was to the mastodon...
Weeks and weeks without any rain in South Hadley finally reduced President Roswell G. Ham to issuing a stern edict forbidding the Maids of the Mount to use water for any except the most vital presonal needs. No baths or showers will be permitted...
They sank with a sullen splash, seconds passed and suddenly the destroyer shook from stem to stern. More depth charges followed and a second convulsion. By that time the Greer was beginning to turn. Minutes later she was back over the spot and more explosions shook the sea. For several hours the Greer quartered that sector of the sea releasing charges at the slightest suspicion of any underwater object...
Harmonious but stern was Getulio Vargas' broadcast to his country : "Any aggression from whatever source will find us the greatest block of varied nationalities ever got together in any defensive alliance." In the same vein Franklin Roosevelt sent a message, read over the radio, to his good southern neighbor...
Britain broke off diplomatic relations with Mexico three years ago. The U.S. was content to exchange notes. Stern old Secretary of State Cordell Hull suggested last year that an impartial arbitration commission be set up, "with authority ... to make certain that adequate and effective compensation shall promptly be paid." Mexico refused, on the ground that it was a domestic, not an international, question. There the matter still rested last week...