Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leviathan, and pushed off just as the enemy swarmed over the fence and advanced in skirmish formation. Paddling vigorously with his hands, he was soon in midstream, and was nearing his prize when of a sudden his progress was stopped, for unhappily he had forgotten to untie the stern of the boat...
...alumna, that article would be the one published in TIME, Oct. 1, on Mount Holyoke. . . . If it were possible, I would like to run an excursion for all those interested in viewing the poor "always studious," "always hard up," "drably" dressed students who eke out "drab" lives under the "stern"-pardon me-"the large, stern" shadow of Mary E. Woolley. It is a pitiful case. I never realized what the four years in which cramming for quizzes was offset by weekends in New York and Boston, dances, dates, athletics, horse shows, class entertainments, concerts, lectures, movies, dramatics, pageants, sleigh rides...
Some 50 crack reporters, sob-sisters, cameramen, ranging from the august New York Times to the Polish Everybody's Record jammed the press tables in Luzerne County Courthouse at Wilkes-Barre. Most conspicuous of all was the hulking, white-crowned figure of Author Dreiser. Rip-snorting Publisher Julius David Stern, who has been trying to transform the ancient New York Post into a wild-&-woolly liberal sheet, had hired Dreiser to cover the trial for the Post, the Philadelphia Record, and a syndicate string. Author Dreiser was also covering for Mystery Magazine...
...still farther, farther to the East, lay the still silent rock which kept the entrance to their maritime knowledge. Beyond,--beyond that rock few men had ventured, and those who had, dared not to pass in straight defiance of the beetling brow of the noble Cape St. Vincent, so stern a guardian of the continent. But through the rock, and beyond that cape, men knew as Vincent, sailed the fleet. Beyond, lay they know not what. To sail their vessels they had men who were not sailors, to cheer their thoughts they had facts which were but legend...
Sailing a triangular course, Endeavour jumped early into the lead, held it serenely down the 10-mile broad reach to the southward. In the beat to the windward, Rainbow with brilliant tacks that time & again outmaneuvered the Englishman, showed its stern to the challenger to round the second mark almost three minutes ahead. Despite a great flash of savage speed in the home stretch, Endeavour was unable to overcome the three minute handicap, trailed home by 55 sec. Because the protest flags were fluttering from both masts at the finish-why, no one immediately knew-what would have been...