Search Details

Word: sternly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

CRUMBLED. THE OLD MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN, the stern granite profile, which has for generations been the state's most recognizable landmark, carved naturally by a glacier 30,000 years ago into New Hampshire's Cannon Mountain; as a result of erosion, after decades of efforts to preserve it; in Franconia Notch State Park. The 40-ft. face has appeared on license plates, postage stamps and the state quarter. New Hampshire officials are debating whether to restore the monument...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones May 19, 2003 | 5/19/2003 | See Source »

...just that. In 1986, a Swiss reporter named Oswald Iten returned to the rain forest and found the Tasaday wearing Levi's jeans and T shirts. They said that they were local farmers who had been coerced previously into playing cavemen. A few weeks later, a team from Der Stern arrived, led by the Tasaday's original discoverer, and found them once again wearing leaves. That, supposedly, proved they were fake. Comparisons were drawn with Piltdown Man, the great paleoanthropological hoax of the early 20th century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tribe Out of Time | 5/19/2003 | See Source »

...team two years later, at the age of 24. In 1968, DeBusschere was traded to the New York Knicks, with whom he won the NBA championships in 1970 and 1973. As the Knicks' executive vice president, DeBusschere drafted the legendary Patrick Ewing in 1985. NBA Commissioner David Stern said, "Our game has lost an icon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 5/19/2003 | See Source »

...always seemed stern, but he really wasn’t,” Sullivan says...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Former HUPD Chief, Spy Tracker, Dies at 94 | 5/14/2003 | See Source »

...with even simpler ideas. Bush's ideas, however, have resulted in freeing millions from horrible oppression in less than a month. If this is simplistic, count me in. Bush knows his limits and so has selected the strongest and smartest Cabinet and best advisers in many a presidency. ROBERT STERN Lima, Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 5, 2003 | 5/5/2003 | See Source »

Previous | 136 | 137 | 138 | 139 | 140 | 141 | 142 | 143 | 144 | 145 | 146 | 147 | 148 | 149 | 150 | 151 | 152 | 153 | 154 | 155 | 156 | Next