Word: stern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only setting used in the production is a sketchy ship, the prow, stern and mast of which are quite naively carried on by the phantom sailors and slipped into place on the stage. Despite this transparency of presentation, a weirdly moving effect is achieved, even when a dead sailor puts his hand up to rock the mast in a storm...
...sermon of the week was delivered-on this subject-by Col. William Cooper Procter, whose family, together with the Gambles, makes Ivory Soap in Cincinnati. (The Gambles are famed Methodist philanthropists.) Col. Procter, stern, swarthy and big, was known four years ago as financial "nunky" of General Wood, presidential aspirant. Speaking as chairman of the money-raising committee of which Bishops Talbot and Gailor are honorary chairmen, he said...
Among those backing the project are: Dr. Roux, head of the Pasteur Institute; Baronne Lajeune, Le Maréchal Foch, Mme. Louis Stern, Joseph Barthélemy, Dr. Alexander Bruno of the Rockefeller Institute and Professor Albert Calmette. Jean Stern, No. 18 Rue Octave Feuillet, Paris, is Treasurer...
...each domitory Mr. Sayles the Squash instructor, has delegated the following teams to compete for the dormitory title the playing for which ends a week from Friday: Gore: 1. S. Morris: 2. C. C. Colby: 3. E. M. Weld: 4. H. Bowker: 5. L. Levinson. Standish: L. W. Stern: 2, C. S. Smith: 3. R. B. Shneider: 4. J. Gerstein; 5. C. Vremer. Smith 1. R. M. Woolen. 2. D. Barnum. 3 L. H. Gordon: 4. C. Grayson. 5. E. Bauer...
...corporation, inspired by Chaim Weizmann, world leader, was decreed by resolution at a meeting called in Manhattan by Louis Marshall, Cyrus Adler, Horace Stern, Herbert Lehman. The meeting called upon American Jews to invest between 2 and 5 million dollars. Securities will probably be offered...