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Word: sternly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Roberta Peters of the Mctropolitan Opera plays Elsa Valdine and sings the duet from Madame Butterfly with the voice of Jan Peerce, superimposed on Byron Palmer. Her rendition of Sempre Liber from Verdi's La Traviata is as sensitive as it is perfect. Violinist Isaac Stern is Eugene Ysaye, who gave Hurok his first big break...

Author: By E. H. Harvey, | Title: Tonight We Sing | 4/21/1953 | See Source »

...mile jog trot." Mary was excused from some of the more rigorous exercises when she was pregnant, so she could sometimes lie abed watching her husband. Physically, he was a striking specimen. His perfectly muscled body was only 5 ft. 6 in. high, his visage was stern, beaked and remorseless, his eyes of a peculiar hazel which became somberly multicolored in moments of passion. His teeth were none too good-per haps because he believed that the cure for toothache was to chew hard on a piece of mahogany ("massage," he called it). He always slept soundly; even when many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life with a Genius | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

Second eight ends up regularly behind the first. It includes but two experienced men--stroke, Brett Langstaff and number one, Nick Daniloff. Between the bow and stern are Vic Harwood, at port seven and Peter Viles at six. Fifth seat is held down by Tom Williams, with Ridge Green at number four and Bailey Silbert at port three. Troy Brown in two position rounds out the shell...

Author: By Steven C. Swett, | Title: LINING THEM UP | 4/17/1953 | See Source »

...Opposed to Plato's philosophy and the Greek search for philosophic wisdom, the Jewish Pharisees clung to a law of stern, ritual purity. Each tradition, in Bruckberger's view, was deficient. But broken, then united by Christ's love, they merged to give Christianity both its traditional faith and its abstract philosophy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: La Femme Coupee | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

...meticulous man, and when I portray baboons I leave no stern untoned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Roaring 50s | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

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