Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...annual PBH drive for clothing and books will begin today and continue through the end of this week, Richard F. Stern '57, co-director of the drive, announced yesterday...
Three organizations, the Massachusetts Mental Hospitals, the Asian Foundation, and the German Students' Association, will receive all collected books and clothing, Stern said...
Modern American education received a stern talking-to in the New York Times Magazine yesterday from Henry Steele Commager, professor of history at Columbia University. Commager, comparing the American system to the European, called for "more rather than less intellectual content, higher rather than lower standards...
...stormy night last November, two stern and intractable members of Franco's Guardia Civil, on routine patrol on the beach in search of smugglers, peered into the windows of an American's seaside cottage to see what was to them an appalling sight: ladies in fig leaves and leopard-skin bras dancing with gentlemen in fur loincloths. Wanamaker Heir Gurnee Munn Jr. had invited the American colony to a caveman party. Many of the 100-odd guests he had invited to come in fancy undress had decided to stay home because of the bad weather. Those that came...
...Intolerable. In Alabama, the Montgomery Advertiser called the Virginia vote a "thunderous revolt." In the Birmingham Post-Herald, Columnist John Temple Graves went into historical ecstasies. "Virginia," said he, "with names for every chapter of American history . . . Virginia, where America's history and philosophy were born . . . Surely this stern and determined gesture from the South gives pause to those who would impose on our people a condition intolerable to them and unknown to the Constitution...