Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sloop Shadow. Then came his string of "oo" boats-Papoose (1887), Babboon (35-footer), Gossoon (40-footer) in which he beat Capt. Charles Barr in the Scotch cutter Minerva; Harpoon (1892) in which he won the Goelet Cup at Newport; and the Rooster and Crooner. He is a stern skipper; his own son calls him "Mister Adams" on shipboard...
Unquestionably the trip to Paris, where King Alexander conferred secretly with that stern greybeard Prime Minister Raymond Poincare, marked the turning-point in the royal career. Jugoslavia is the "little ally" of France, and the statesmen at Paris have been repeatedly vexed by the notorious instability of the Parliament in Belgrade?an instability which became anarchy last summer when the leader of the opposition, Stefan Raditch, was assassinated on the floor of the House (TiME, July 2). Apparently M. Poincaré recommended the kill-or-cure panacea known as a military dictatorship. King Alexander, assured of French backing, went home...
...hydroairplane has a broad V-shaped bottom which flattens toward the stern, a Sea Sled inverts the V, also flattens toward the stern. Both are built to slide along the surface rather t h a n t o p l o u g h t h r o u g h t h e w a t er. *A name derived from electric launch comp a n y, h o l d i n g c o m p a n y o f E l c o
Particularly joyous was Norway's Oslo. There the Storting suspended all parliamentary business while Oslo's Hambro, the nation's stern speaker, led a barking Norwegian cheer. Appropriately enough; Norsk Kron Prins Olav was not there to hear. With gallant stealth he had slipped off to Stockholm and Sveriges Princessa Märtha Sofia Lovisa Dagmar Thyra...
...plants throughout the Middle West and South, in Canada and Cuba, in France and Germany and Sweden, foremen and factory-managers of the International Harvester Co. (McCormick) beamed with paternal smiles, clapped their boys and girls on the back. Alexander Legge, their stern, potent President, permitted them to announce last week a million-dollar-a-year vacation plan adopted by the company for its 40.000 employes. Two weeks of holiday every year will be given workers in all manufacturing departments, as well as office help. And this vacation will be with pay, an unusual arrangement in the industrial world. Meanwhile...