Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this field must necessarily be limited when pursued as an undergraduate and so could hardly be considered as a substitute for business or night school. Furthermore, the college is primarily intended to provide a broad cultural basis on which to establish the later specialized life work. Through too stern devotion to accounting, banking, and trade, the university man is liable to lose the other intellectual benefits which are, in the main, the important factors in the value of a college education as opposed to a technical one. It is a cause for satisfaction that English and History still occupy...
...Stern, the court fined whilom Chief Tibacu 100,000 lei (about $500), clapped him into jail for ten years, sentenced his wife and aides to five years each...
...long ago tall, grave King Haakon VII belied his stern appearance, made the first contribution to a fund for the benefit of a woman with two children who, beaten repeatedly by her husband, finally killed him with...
...Neponset, Mass. Head up, like a horse freed in pasture, the Whirlwind checked up off Squantum Island, her waterline standing out between her white topsides and the green paint on her mahogany underbody. She is 130 ft. overall, 86 ft. on the water; she has a canoe-like stern, long, overhanging bow, a longer and squarer keel than the other proposed defenders. L. Francis Herreshoff designed her. Her steel frame came from Pennsylvania, her mahogany from South America, her pine deck and spruce mast from Washington, her black walnut trimmings from Indiana...
Then give the Solitaire cowboys a set of blue cheaters apiece and set them on an opposite corner with a stern admonition to bear down heavy on something with a tune...