Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that won for him in 1928, built up a two-and-a-half-length lead. Five hundred metres from the finish, Bill Miller, 26-year-old oarsman of Philadelphia, pulling with a quicker swing, began to cut down the open water between the bow of his shell and the stern of Pearce's. Miller's bow was coming up even with the waist of Pearce's shell when Pearce's bow reached the finish. Last major event of the Xth Olympiad was the final heat in the 2,000-metre race for eight-oared crews, between...
...east of the Civic Centre spreads the large, calm residential section, its wide tree-lined avenues running sedately north and south, its citizens moving soberly along them on Sunday mornings to Denver's many churches. Like most second-generation frontier towns, Denver is strongly moral. It has a stern respect for conventional art, religion, home, womanhood. When Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey, after brilliant service in the Juvenile Court, declared that scarcely 10% of Denver's high-school girls were virgins and campaigned nationally for Companionate Marriage, Denver cast him out, has all but forgotten him. Denverites like direct action. Last...
...plane. From the rear cockpit Lieut. Daniel Ward Harrigan signalled with his hand. An electric winch began turning. Slowly the trapeze descended, lowering the plane through the T into the rushing airstream below the Akron's belly. Then 63-year-old Admiral Moffett, a parachute strapped to his stern, crawled down the trapeze into space, clambered over the airplane's wing and into the forward cockpit. Pilot Harrigan reached up, jerked a lever, disengaged his plane-hook from the trapeze bar. At the same instant he gunned his motor, nosed his plane down in a power dive to clear...
...lost three. The French first-class submarine Promethée of 2,000 tons (estimated cost $2,000,000) was maneuvering on the surface of the English Channel near Cherbourg, with several French bluejackets standing on her deck. Suddenly the Promethée began to go down by the stern.. Since her hatches were open, water poured in and she sank like a stone, carrying 62 men to their death. Her commander, a Lieut, du Mesnil, stepped out of the conning tower to see what the trouble was, just in time to save his skin...
...telephone connection with the Artiglio was ripped apart by the rushing waters. They expressed a professional opinion that it will be impossible to raise the Promethée, said that they found her hatches open, conjectured that an explosion may have ripped open the Promethée's stern, thus causing her to sink stern first. "The public has a right," observed long-mustached French Naval Minister Georges Leygues, "to know the truth...