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Word: sternly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Haines is counting heavily on his stern powerhouse to deliver the goods tomorrow. Stroke John Chandler, who moved up from the J.V.'s, and Captain Dick Hunneman, veteran of several Harvard Varsities, supported at 6 by Bob Funk-houser, form a formidable combination. Bowman Bill Stiles, also a Varsity veteran, Ken McAfee at 5, John Kettele at 2, and cox Dan Paul are all left from last spring's Varsity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crews to Race Tech, Cornell in Triangular Regatta on Charles | 9/22/1944 | See Source »

Mary-Agnes Brown was a Washington lawyer and authority on veterans' legislation before she joined. Her stern hairdo belies 42-year-old Brown's lighter side. She can do Mexican folk dances and sing Mexican love songs in a fair soprano. Stationed in Australia, she is staff director in the Southwest Pacific area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: The Old Nine | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

...matter much that an over-zealous press last week flashed the news prematurely by some 48 hours.* The U.S. had been tensely waiting the good word too long to care. Even Washington, whose normal reaction to a victory is a stern lecture on overoptimism, caught the mood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ready for V-Day? | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

...roving photographer, Boston, who falls in love with an agreeable Syd as played by Doreen Saxton, Radcliffe '48. Nancy Boyle, Radcliffe '46 is excellent as the emotional young wife, and Tom Gad '46 convincing, if a bit stiff, as her artist husband. William Mayleas '46 plays Mr. Stein, a stern landlord...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From the Pit | 8/25/1944 | See Source »

...meet this psychology realistically and effectively was Washington's task. But the Reconversion War was being fought on rigid lines. The Army, in effect, argued that production be kept up by stern talk, and by denying the implication of the victory headlines. WPBsters wanted to assure workers that the transition to peace would be smooth, to keep men at war work. On this line, Nelson and the Army were prepared to fight it out all summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle of Assumptions | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

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