Word: starkness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Decorously the motion passed with not a single dissenting vote. Ninety-two Deputies abstained, but the 184 affirmative votes were stark handwriting on the world's wall : the largest State Diet in the German Republic had overwhelmingly endorsed repudiation of Reparations...
Borden's grimness lay largely in its precision. It pictured a healthy, happy young man of perhaps 25 years. The stark head line read : 40 YEARS TO GO. Then, to cheer a mortal race to its inevitable fate, Borden's said: "Regular intestinal habits will help him make...
...Mannons are a strange lot, proud, rich, a family 200 years old. They hate well, too. Ezra, general and judge, and his son Orin are expected home from the Civil War. One who wants Ezra back is his stark daughter Lavinia (Miss Brady). One who does not want him back, hates him, wishes him in his grave is his wife Christine (Miss Nazimova). Beautiful, full-blown, she has fallen in love with a seaman, Brant. It does not take long to find out that Brant is a Mannon, too. His father was Ezra's uncle, who got a hired...
Score--Pennsylvania 5, Harvard 3. Goals--Kullman 3, Anderson, Chang, Dorman, Broadbent, Frame. Referee--R. Howley. Linesmen--Paynton, Crew. Time--Four 22-minute periods. HARVARD 1935 WORCESTER England, g. g., Munez Kingsley, l.f.b. r.f.b., Stark Irving, r.f.b. l.f.b., Sharp McGoodwin, l.h.b. r.h.b., Chrestman Colman, c.h.b. c.h.b., Curtis Fuess, r.h.b. l.h.b., Rocheford Robbins, l.o.f. r.o.f., Barrett Stork, l.i.f. r.i.f., Trivers Clos, c.f. c.f., Bulkeley Butler, r.i.f. l.i.f., Sherwin Grover, r.o.f. l.o.f., Appleyard...
...Stark evidence appeared last week further to puzzle investigators seeking to untangle the mystery of Long Island Sound, the Collings Case. From the drifting, lightless cabin cruiser Penguin one night had disappeared a young inventor, Benjamin P. Collings, and his younger, pretty wife, Mrs. Lillian Chelius Collings, leaving their 5-year-old daughter Barbara to be picked up by passing fishermen. Next morning Mrs. Collings was found half-hysterical in the anchored launch of Mayor Howard C. Smith of Cove Neck, L. I. To police she told a strange story of how two mysterious men in a canoe, one about...