Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Accordingly Yugoslavia talked as tough as she could. Yugoslavia pointedly remained outside last week's signing bee and the Skoplje newsorgan Glas Juge (Voice of the South) addressed a stern warning to Bulgaria, whose Parliament began talking of revisionist claims against Yugoslavia. ''The question of Macedonia was settled on the battlefields. Nevermore will the Valley of Vardar be detached from Yugoslavia." That strategic valley is a link in the most convenient route from central Europe to strategic Salonika...
Arthur W. Balley 2L, New York, N. Y.; Jacob W. Rosenthal 2L, New York, N. Y.; James F. Stern 2L, Milwankee, WisHerbert A. Waterman 1L, San Francisco, Calif.; and Gordon M. Weber 1L, Burlingame, Calif...
...stern test of events the plumbing proved out of order, the timetable out of date. The love of Empire which had caused Father Joe to break with Gladstone over Home Rule for Ireland was the driving force of Neville Chamberlain's life. It was a perverse and shortsighted love. It was said that he would sacrifice, not only Ethiopia, Spain and Czecho-Slovakia, but the half of the world that was not Britain's, to save the British Empire. Alert to the danger of war, he made it his policy to avert war at all costs -even...
...Italy waked up to the fact that although Italians could not learn from their own papers how badly things were going in Greece, they could read all about it in papers from Switzerland. Several Swiss newspapers, including the Tribune de Geneve, were banned. Fascist Mouthpiece Virginio Gayda issued a stern warning to the Swiss press to stop printing what he called "unneutral" war news. The rest of the Italian press immediately took up the cry in shriller tones. Cried Popolo di Brescia...
...those who dread the woodcut terrors of the Dance of Death or other bizarre inflections, and for whom all complex sanity is madness, David Smith will seem bewildering. But for those anxious to participate in his visions, there will come a stern pleasure in unraveling his thousand devices...