Word: stem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...maneuver-somewhere. His High Command made further show of this free feeling by sending home 3,000 of 27,000 civilian doctors who were mobilized for service in the West. Perhaps spring will find some of these doctors in French Syria with Weygand's Army, ready to stem a Russian march into Bessarabia, or to drive at Germany through the postern gate of erstwhile Poland...
During the first period, Ayres from his backing-up post was able to stem much of Penn flux through the center of the Crimson front line. When Ayres was removed, the Quaker master-minds were able to work their strategy more effectively. The Crimson backs were pulled in through fear of long runs, and passes were tossed neatly over their heads...
...ever the Big Three need to stick together in danger, now is the time. One side of the Eternal Triangle is collapsing. One stem of the race is vanishing. In a feature article, the usually unsensational New York Times announced that "Old Nassan's graduates were failing to a striking degree to reproduce themselves . . . and are dying out with amazing rapidity . . . The men now in college will have few descendants in six generations...
...WORLD Is ROUND-Gertrude Stem -William R. Scott...
When her publishers suggested that she write a children's book, Gertrude Stem was delighted with the idea. Many a grown-up and many a child will be delighted with the result, especially if grownups follow directions by reading it out loud-"if you have any trouble, read faster and faster." The World Is Round has 34 chapters about a little girl named Rose and her cousin Willie. Long and serious practice has given witty Miss Stem a mastery over itty language that puts most children's writers in the shade. Any child can understand such information...