Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...winners are: Ralph Blum '54, Andrew T. Cole, Jr. '54, Alain L. Stern '54, Robert S. Platt, Jr. and Rodman A. Sharp from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and Donald W. Dowd from the Law School...
...students a taste of such lawyer-poets as Wallace Stevens and Edgar Lee Masters, exposes them to the theater with Galsworthy's Justice, Elmer Rice's Counsellor-at-Law, and even Gilbert and Sullivan's Trial by Jury ("For today in this arena,/Summoned by a stern subpoena,/Edwin sued by Angelina/Shortly will appear...
...Christians or the Communists got to Russia, pent finches, larks, blackbirds and pigeons were let out of their cages to symbolize the coming of spring. As time passed, the freeing of birds became part of the annual celebration of the Orthodox Feast of the Annunciation. Even under the stern materialism of Soviet rule. Russia's common man, himself pent beyond hope, continued to find a fleeting moment of freedom in the liberation of small winged creatures on April 7, the Day of the Birds...
...mirror of a dressing table, so that a gyro stabilizer can keep it at the proper angle no matter how much the carrier may be pitching. On each side of it are horizontal rows of colored lights. Strong white lights shine into it from near the carrier's stern...
Today, the trend has turned again, this time in favor of the Victorian way. People are beginning to miss Father. Denizens of a shaky world, they wish they could hear again the decisive tread of his square-toed boots, glimpse once more his stern and hairy visage. Gone is the old belief that when father and son come to blows, all right is on the son's side...