Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...downed Winthrop 6-5 yesterday in the opening round of the intramural basketball tournament. The Kirkland Leverett match resulted in a 18-11 win for Kirkland, while Lowell routed Brooks 18-5. In the fourth contest schedule, between Eliot and Dunster, the Dunster team failed to appear. Solomon W. Stern '35, who starred for Lowell, was the individual high scorer of the afternoon, with four goals to his credit...
...fear, have been more successful with the magazine than they have been with the anthology which contains only a few outstanding short stories. First, I shall touch briefly on the self-conscious authors who treat sex sensationally, and badly; into this category come Bruce Brown, Erskine Caldwell, James Stern, and George Albee. The last man mentioned describes pithily and dully the reactions of a seventeen-year-old boy when he is assured that he has contracted syphilis from a girl whom he loves. "Week-End," by Carlton Brown is an amusing description of the awakening of youth, written...
...sort of genial grandpa to the whole Soviet Union is stern Josef Stalin's front man, twinkly-eyed, scrubby-bearded Michail Ivanovich Kalinin, whose wife, many Russians think, resembles Mrs. Roosevelt...
...fool, Dino Bratianu knows that Rumania's Treasury is the real political prize. He became Finance Minister last week, leaving the Premiership to stern Dr. Ion Duca, titular Leader of the National Liberal Party. At once the new-Cabinet adopted a characteristic Bratianu policy: suppression of freedom of the press. Twelve pro-Peasant newspapers had their entire editions confiscated. For good measure Premier Duca suppressed two small parties of the ultraRight, the Iron Guards and the anti-Semitic National Christian Defense League. In a wholesale, nationwide shakeup local prefects were ousted and replaced by Bratianu men. "These new officials...
Attached to the steamer's stern is an enormous tarpaulin apron criss-crossed by wooden laths, called a drag-sail. When the steamer is at rest, or barely making headway, the drag-sail trails below the surface. There it lies while the plane taxies up to the steamer's stern. As soon as the plane is in position, the Westphalen picks up speed, with the plane taxiing after her. The towing force lifts the drag-sail to the surface where it smooths the water, makes a floor for the plane. Winches are brought into play and presently plane...