Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sound of grinding chain struck his ears and the Vagabond turned to look at the railway. His boat was setting down stern-first into the water now, easily, smoothly, gently, like a thing alive and yet afraid of violent exertion. The Vagabond rose and walked shoreward, his heart, full of joy. The days of winter were over, his duties done for a spell, his heart and his mind and his senses all keen to go down...
...chemical symposium in Manhattan last week Dr. Kurt G. Stern of Yale announced that he had isolated a red pigment molecule from liver tissue which weighs 3,000,000 to 4,000,000 units. This is the biggest molecule ever found to be a normal part of vertebrate animals. It was extracted while Dr. Stern and his co-workers were purifying enzymes in a powerful centrifuge, which separates molecules of mixed weight by whirling them at high speed...
...Stern declared that the red giants appeared to be chemically different from any other known substance. Their biological function remains obscure. But the red color seems to be an intrinsic property of the molecules, not an impurity. "We plan," said Dr. Stern, "to study this interesting substance more extensively...
...Dance Committee is Douglas MacLeod '39, chairman, Russell J. Stern '38, John B. Howland '39, Phillip Rupreeht '40, and G. Scott Olive...
...artist is at his best when he is depicting the stern, hard, grim type of miner who lives in Jerome. With just a few quick lines he brings out all the toil and suffering endured by these men, men who, however, still enjoy life. Another point in which the artist excels is the remarkable effects he achieves by the use of just a few colors. An excellent example of this may be seen in "Arizona Hills...