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Word: sternly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Victory at Montreal. An austere, hard-driving administrator, Sir Oliver was brought up under the stern eye of his theologian father, made a brilliant record at Oxford and stayed on to become a don and dean of Queen's College. He was a professor of moral philosophy at Glasgow when he was drafted into the Ministry of Supply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Accent on Facts | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

...Activities Center has grown to the proportions of a filibuster. And hardly a voice is raised in Sanders' defense. Mixed in with the Bronx cheers are overtones of resentment about the University's attitude towards student theater groups. And as a final blow, Sanders' crealy physical condition evoked a stern warning from a state fire inspection official, who was reported to have called it "the worst fire hazard in the state of Massachusetts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From the Pit | 2/21/1948 | See Source »

...choice is before the College. It can remain in the shadow of yesterday, waking only long enough to note the stern return of Swarthmore to the fold. Or it can follow the Radcliffe Student Council into the companionate world of the present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Modest Proposal | 2/20/1948 | See Source »

...hundred one crew candidates tramped through the snow to Nowell Boathouse last night to hear stern words from Coach Tom Bolles. "Every rowing college in the country is out to beat us. We can make any college's season a success by losing to them," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crew Squad and Lacrossemen Set Plans for Spring | 2/6/1948 | See Source »

...Ferguson Locke '35, Langdon P. Marvin '41, Thomas Matters '43, Vern Miller '42, Thomas L. P. O'Donnell '47, Endicott Peabody '42, Roswell B. Perkins '47, John C. Robbins, Jr. '42, Armand Schwab, Jr. '46, Saul Sherman '47, Philip M. Stern '47, Robert S. Sturgis ' 44, Richard H. Sullivan '41, and James Tobin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alumni Committee Will Campaign For War Memorial Activities Center | 1/24/1948 | See Source »

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