Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poetry is still a dual form. Its beauty reaches the mind both through the eye and the ear. Many who today are judged as poets aver that poetry is no longer being read aloud, and are writing verse with that in mind. Robert Bridges' last great poem stands in stern contrast to that opinion...
After their craft capsized the oarsmen clung to it for some time, but despite their efforts the waves drove it against the Basin wall. Later examination revealed an eight inch split in the how and a large hole in the stern...
...From the third car descended Donna Rachele Mussolini. At a reception the day before she had presided for the first time in her life as the Dictator's official hostess. Usually she lives in Milan, 350 miles from Rome. Appropriately the Dictator's wife was escorted by the tall, stern Roman with eagle-eyebrows and crisp white beard whom L'Avenir had called Il Duce's "designated successor": Count Costanzo Ciano...
...this episode, the profession thought it saw part of an explanation for Curtis-Martin's expensive acquisition in March of the Philadelphia Inquirer, a purchase that left only the Record between Curtis-Martin and monopoly of the morning field. Gloat by Publisher Julius David Stern of the Record...
Significance: Dictator Josef Stalin is now easing up on his stern program of forcing independent peasants onto the Government's collective farms; examples are beginning to be made of over-zealous patriots like stupid Nikolai Konekov...