Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor William Stern, visiting Professor of Psychology at Duke University, will lecture on Wednesday. February 6th, at 5 P.M. in Emerson D. under the joint auspices of the Department of Psychology and the Graduate School of Education. The topic of the lecture will be "Levels of Realty: Some Aspects of the Psychology of Childhood and Youth." The lecture in open to the public...
Judge Wilson is a stern Justice and a Mississippi orator. In one of his first cases in the Islands he had declared: "I am responsible only to Homer Cummings and to God Almighty." He refused to dismiss a case against a minor public works employe charged with pilfering a small amount of lumber and cement. Instead, he put witnesses on the stand, questioned them and then, without a jury, found the employe guilty and fined him $200, saying, "You have become a Judas and Benedict Arnold to your country." This procedure was, according to the Department of Justice, proper under...
...industry on which Mr. Ickes as Oil Administrator heaped not only stern regulations but much verbal abuse. ¶ Public utilities, which are confronted with new competition from hydroelectric plants built with PWA grants from Mr. Ickes...
...applied to cruiser construction. Mechanical revelations were less revolutionary. Outboard motors this year will have electric starters. Smallest outboard in the show was a 24½-lb. Evinrude-Elto with 1½ h.p. ($55). Principal development in larger motors was V-drive construction, with motors mounted at the extreme stern to make more cabin or cockpit room. Interesting to many were three silent electric boats for anglers, 15-to-18 ft. long. Speed: 5-9 m. p. h. Price: $175-$750. One has a bow-rudder...
This book will provide one more meal of blood & bones for that sector of the U. S. public which feasts on gruesome newspictures. Philip Van Doren Stern hunted high & low through press morgues for the most gushy examples of tabloid journalism. For photographs selected by their death-&-disaster appeal Herbert Asbury has written brief captions to explain the what, why, where, when...