Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tests made six months afterwards showed, however, that much of its effect was unimpaired. A method of "incidental learning" proved, however, to be more effective than propaganda. Pupils in Catholic parochial schools, who had a system of self-government, proved to be more stern toward violators of the law than those...
Died. Dr. Louis William Stern, 67, German emigré, onetime (1916-33) director of the Psychological Institute at Hamburg University, since 1934 professor of psychology at Duke University; of a heart attack; in Durham. N. C. One of the world's leading psychologists, Dr. Stern was credited with having originated the idea of I. Q. (intelligence quotient) tests...
...publisher but knew of this profitable friendship between two stubborn individualists, and two years ago David Stern's New York Post flatly described Mr. Block as a "Hearst stooge." But since 1931 Mr. Block has reduced his holdings to Newark, Pittsburgh and Toledo, says that what he runs he owns. So Mr. Block's grey fringe bristled when Robert S. Allen, sharpshooting Washington columnist, wrote last September in the Nation...
...Then with a series of heavy crashes, one following another as the Sutherland crossed her enemy's stern and each section of guns bore in turn, she fired her broadside into her . . . with every shot tearing its destructive course from end to end of the ship. .. . . That was the sort of broadside which won battles. That single discharge had probably knocked half the fight out of the Frenchmen, killing and wounding a hundred men or more, dismounting half a dozen guns." With little philosophizing about war and man's fate, Author Forester, competent and unpretentious, hurries his story...
...cancer, cardiac decompensation, uremia, anuria, tabes dorsales, multiple sclerosis. These were not all cured by any means, especially in the cancer cases, but in all cases there was a diminution of pain, the patients looked and felt better, and in some instances there was a rejuvenating effect which Dr. Stern attributed to the vitamin. His most touching case was an elderly woman who was almost pathologically addicted to sweets and had von Recklinghausen's disease (ugly nodules all over the body). She not only improved clinically but gleefully announced that she felt like a girl...