Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shore. . . . We can be cheered by the knowledge that 'the tide is coming.' " In darker years han 1931 Mr. Schwab had said the same things and he had been right. But to make his prophecies come true again what seemed most to be needed was the stern Farrell lesson...
...eights, which will not appear on the Charles today, plan to hold two sessions on Lake Cayuga tomorrow, with H. H. Bissell '33 continuing in the stern-sheets of the first boat, where he was boated last Saturday. F. S. Holmes '31 will continue to guide the junior boat. Yeomans, who has been ill during the first part of the week, and R. I. McKesson '31, who rows at bow in the Lawrence eight, are to accompany the squad as substitutes...
...from Dzerjinski Place to Theatre Place while traffic scattered and passengers clung screaming to their seats. At the bottom of the hill the car jumped the tracks so violently that its body was torn from the trucks. One woman was killed, six persons gravely injured. Alexandra Semeena, built of stern stuff, was unscathed. Inspectors discovered that the brakes were in perfect condition, had not even been applied...
...sterling men of [that] first generation were impelled by the strong religious and stern Puritanical code of their time which demanded that each should give a tithe of his income to benevolent purposes and a greater or less quota of his time to the public interest. Philanthropic and patriotic service was instilled weekly in every pulpit, for practically everyone attended church...
President Lowell of Harvard University, who sometimes seems very close to the stern, unbending Puritan of tradition, has yielded one step to the protest of Harvard graduates and undergraduates against the intention to omit from the new Harvard Memorial Chapel any mention of the three Harvard graduates who died fighting in the German armies. The chapel will be a monument to the men who gave their lives in the Allied cause, but there will be room in it for a tablet to the three Germans, all of whom, as it happens, died before the United States entered the World...