Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...makes a mockery out of the English language. He might renounce exclamation points and obscure Latin quotations, too, while he is about it. This petulance must not be taken to mean that the current reviews are poor jobs. On the contrary, they seem quite intelligent. All they needed was stern editing...
...suit against the New Orleans Times-Picayune last June (TIME, June 26), they had an arm-long list of charges against the T-P and its afternoon sister, the States. By running the States at a loss, they charged, the Times-Picayune was trying to freeze out Publisher David Stern's afternoon Item ; by threatening to withhold the T-P and States from news vendors handling the Item, it had tried to keep the Item off the streets; by requiring national advertisers to run their ads in both the T-P and the States, the T-P was exposing...
Bartok: Sonata No. 1 (Isaac Stern, violin; Alexander Zakin, piano; Columbia, 2 sides LP). Making his Bartok bow on records, Fiddler Stern gets forcefully to the heart of this difficult sonata (1921) without losing his beautiful tone. Recording: excellent...
...stern master to his sons, Robert, Gordon, Fred and George, he made them do the threshing on his 130-acre farm near Hamilton, made them learn the iron business by sweating as puddlers in the foundry, sent them all to Princeton* (where Robert died in his junior year...
...makes it possible to steer a ship from a number of stations other than the bridge. The "helmsman," already being installed on several Navy ships, is a portable control box which can be plugged into outlets leading from many parts of the ship to the steering mechanism in the stern. The helmsman's "wheel" is simply a knob on the control box. Sample uses: to replace the main steering station if the bridge is knocked out, or if the helmsman wants to steer from a better vantage point when picking up planes, docking, fueling...