Word: stern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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General Degoutte is a hero to the French. His War record and the stern efficiency of his rule in occupied Germany as Generalissimo of the Franco-Belgian troops combined to endear him to French hearts. In Germany, however, he was one of the best hated men among the hated "invaders...
...morning last week, the countenance of William R. Timmons, Executive Secretary of the Greenville (S. C.) Chamber of Commerce grew stern. He had viewed the doings of Mutt...
...town. He had indicated, moreover, that it was a city noted as a cotton center. That was what Little Jeff was going to investigate-cotton. Artist Fisher had named the city, too. "Greenville, N. C.," he called it-and that was why Mr. Timmons' face had grown stern...
...open qualifying round to select a challenger to meet William Stern II, world's champion puzzler (TIME, Sept. 29), Mrs. von Phul was runner-up to C. F. Hunter, of Sound Beach, Conn. Before the challenge round was played, Hunter had to rush for his afternoon train. So Mrs. von Phul stepped to the blackboard,* climbed her ladder, chalked up a solution several consonants and a number of vowels ahead of Puzzler Stern. As world's champion, Puzzler von Phul was thereupon showered with puzzle books, dictionaries, medals, flattery. Said she: "I don't know where...
...Puzzler Stern and his wife (who advocates vocabulary jousts as an antidote to divorce) became national mixed doubles champions...