Word: stern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Kent--Koehler v. Paige--Stern, Gettner...
...perennial leaders: 1) Revered, monolithic President Paul von Hindenburg contributes to the State stability and prestige; 2) "The German Lloyd George," Dr. Gustav Stresemann, continues as Foreign Minister in cabinet after cabinet and negotiates ceaselessly among the former enemy powers from whom he has filched many a concession; 3) stern, able Defense Minister Otto Gessler is even more a fixture at his post than is Dr. Stresemann in his; he works tirelessly, commands imperiously and never gives interviews; 4) finally President Dr. Hjalmar Schacht of the Reichsbank is a granite wall against which some finance ministers lean for support...
...RACKET?A cruel tale of Chicago police stations written and played with stern reality...
...bumped, and of those behind it to bump the boat in front of them. When a boat has passed the finishing-post it cannot be bumped. Bumping consists in touching the boat ahead with some portion of your boat usually, of course, the bows of one boat bump the stern of the other. As soon as a bump has been made both boats draw into the side, and later paddle up to the barges when the crews behind them have passed by. On the next day each starts where the other had done on the previous day. In this...
...third week of last month Seymour Parker Gilbert, Agent General for Reparation Payments, perhaps the most powerful official in Germany, penned a stern, firm, yet friendly warning to the German Government that its extravagances were endangering the fiscal equilibrium of the Reich and imperiling the Dawes Plan...