Word: sturdier
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...since British settlers and visiting aristocrats began potting away at elephants in the pristine wilds of East Africa at the turn of the century, the world's biggest unwalled zoo has been an almost exclusive preserve for the rich, the idle and the professional romantics, ranging from the sturdier of the Riviera set to Ernest Hemingway. But the airplane has made Africa accessible as never before, and since World War II a veritable army of hunters has swarmed into Africa's safari lands...
Tiny, bustling Lebanon (pop. 1,500,000) is the most stable of all Arab countries, with sturdier traditions of literacy, representative government, religious tolerance and international trade than any of its neighbors. But the announcement of the Syrian-Egyptian union and President Nasser's dramatic visit to Damascus-only a two-hour drive from Beirut-has had an explosive effect among the half of Lebanon's population who are Moslems. A delegation headed by ex-Premier Abdullah el Yafi, leader of the opposition, rushed to Damascus to call on Nasser and extend its congratulations. An estimated...
...among the woodwinds and brasses, a chance to display their individual talents. On one hearing the work itself seemed fairly coherent, although dependent for its principal effect upon the manipulation of peculiar timbres. But beneath this outward, coloristic impression gained at the first hearing may lie a sturdier core. At any rate, the orchestra is to be commended for playing this little-heard music, and it should continue the policy by including other works of moderate difficulty in its future programs...
Trial at Rouen is one of Composer Dello Joio's finest works, displaying his gift for vocal melody. The total effect is of opera in the Italian tradition, sturdier and more severe than the music of Menotti, but more full-bodied than the works of the extreme modernists...
...leisurely approach to journalism, it did not seem that it would fall in with the advocates of the five-day week. The five-day week is typical of the welfare state, CIO and all that. We had always assumed the nation's oldest college daily was of sturdier stuff and would be truer to the spirit of the Entrepreneurial Age in which it was founded. But reading back over old issues, it seems that News has taken its lumps on Saturdays. It was on a Saturday that the News reported that thirty people had been food-poisoned at the Temple...