Word: stern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...boat favored by the statistics to win the inter-squad regatta is the one stroked by Captain John Watts '28, the pace-maker for Crew C. The four stern oarsmen of this shell, Watts, Guy Murchie '29, Oliver Ames '28, and B. J. Harrison '29 are more powerful and experienced than any of the other combinations...
Before the funeral car advanced 200 heralds and standard bearers, caparisoned, magnificent. Squealing and rasping followed an immense native orchestra. Next came, lumbering and lurching, a score of royal elephants bearing jewel-studded howdahs. Shielded by the howdah curtains sat King Monivong and others of the blood royal whose stern stomachs easily withstood the motion. As the procession passed, both French and native troops lined the way, saluted the funeral car, and kept the multitude of mourners back...
Spring 3100 is the telephone number of the Manhattan police headquarters. Accordingly one might reasonably expect a stern diversion dealing with the police department on duty through a bloody evening. But the play, of all things, is a dream fantasy. A pugilist is hit on the chin and the developments of the second act are designed to explain what a pugilist thinks about when he is knocked unconscious. It seems this particular pugilist wanted to be an architect and marry a maid above his station. His distrustful manager suggested that if he persisted in these inflated notions he would land...
...anti-Semitic Budapest. Recently he returned, lulled into false security by the technical expiration of the original order for his arrest. Friends of Count Bethlen had, moreover, allegedly assured Baron Havatny that his attacks had been "forgotten." Last week he was arrested on a new warrant, learned that stern, glacial, silent Dictator Count Bethlen does not forget...
...world over. Member boats over 30 feet on the waterline number more than 600. In the famed grillroom, designed like the salon of a ship, hang reproductions of all the notable ships of its history. Membership requires presentation of a model to this museum. There hangs, also, the stern board of the great yacht America, built by a syndicate headed by James C. Stevens, which sailed to England and raced against 15 British boats around the Isle of Wight. Queen Victoria, scanning the finish, saw the America cross the line. "Who is second," she asked. "There is no second...