Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...during the years they spend at college they will never acquire it. "Read," said an old monk to Anselm in his boyhood; "read my son, for by reading only mayest thou attain success." And to this advice vigorously followed may be ascribed the marvelous acuteness of intellect and stern application to study which so distinguished this keenest of reasoners...
...criminal act in the great English universities, has not only been subject to dismissal by the authorities, but has been "dropped," or in the English phrase, "put into Coventry" by his friends. But very few cases have occurred in a very long time, but those few have afforded stern and sad lessons in lives blighted by this unmanly dishonesty at college, and the social condemnation with which it was visited. One of the most successful of Canon Farrar's works - a novel that rivalled "Tom Brown at Oxford" - drew its interest and power from one of those cases...
...enough life or power. His finish is weak, and he lets his knees wobble. The trouble with the crew as a whole is, that they do not get a hard enough finish, and that they are very slow in starting forward. Then the time of all, except the stern men, might be improved on without harming anything. Of the crew that is rowing now, Adams, Hale, Purdon, Churchill, and Thomas have rowed in one or more races. Bancroft has never pulled in a race, but was second substitute at New London last spring. All the others...
...sounded from the referee's tug as the signal for the crews to get into line. A rope will be stretched across the river, to which four row boats will be moored at a distance of one hundred feet apart. A man in each boat will hold the stern of a shell. As soon as the shells are in line, two whistles will be sounded as a signal for the men to come out to the full reach...
Thus it comes to pass that the Morgue is no longer a mere inanimate building. It becomes weirdly endowed with an awful personality. It is an explorer, it is an expounder, it is a preacher, it is a prophet, it is a stern moralist, it is a ghastly buffoon, it is a broken-hearted recording angel. Like some horrible ghoul, grinning and gibbering forever amid its dark mysteries, it stretches out awful hands to the wretched and the despairing throughout the vast, throbbing city, and whispers: "Come to me, come to me!" and they hear and shudder and turn cold...