Word: sterner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turning in an average performance tonight, the Crimson should win by five to ten points. Cornell will pose a far sterner test...
...machines and so on, the room is capable of becoming any place on earth that the children want to visit, including every sort of hanging garden and bower of bliss in the bibliography of never-never lands. The children, deprived of human love by the machine substitute, elect a sterner environment. They turn the room into a dry and baking swatch of the African veldt. In the end, they lock their parents in there, where a pride of hungry lions tears the adults to pieces...
...sensual vignettes of dalliance, he rarely reached such peaks of rococo rendering as in his Fantasy Portraits. Dating from the late 1760s, they are a series of 14 portraits of actual people in disguise-often in the ruffs and cuffs of the preceding century. His The Warrior is sterner than the rest, but still as theatrical as grease paint...
This morning's semi-finals should provide the Harvard eight with a somewhat sterner test. Their principal foe will be the Vesper Boat Club of Philadelphia, which easily defeated Princeton and the Laconia "C" crew Wednesday. Crimson Coach Harry Parker said that Vesper, consisting of a motley crew of oarsmen ranging in age from 20 to 46, looked as impressive as West Coast powerhouse California in the opening round...
...down to a humiliating four straight defeats by the U.S.'s Columbia; two years ago, Australia's Gretel lost 4-1 to Weatherly and its master tactician Bus Mosbacher. Now it is Britain's turn again, and the Royal Thames Yacht Club means to make a sterner test of it. Off Newport, R.I., this summer, two new British twelves will fight it out for the right to challenge the U.S. in the best-of-seven series. They are Sovereign, owned by London Financier Anthony Boy den, 36, and Kurrewa V (pronounced Coo-roo-aa),* jointly financed...