Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gargantuan orange-peel doors of the Goodyear-Zeppelin dock at Akron slid open one sunny afternoon last week and the biggest dirigible ever built moved slowly out, stern first, pushed by the mobile stub mooring-mast at her bow. For this moment of ideal weather officials of Navy and Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. had waited for days. The low hills which make a natural amphitheatre of Akron's municipal airport were black with automobiles and spectators. The Akron...
...Bridgeport baseball club, told police he had borrowed a similar blanket early in the summer, that later it had been stolen from his boat with a pair of canvas shoes and a knife. At just that time he had passed a boat with Penguin painted on its stern. Seeking other Penguins, Prosecutor Blue learned that there are at least ten of them in the waters around New York. Thicker grew the Mystery of Long Island Sound...
...name Miss America VIII was entered, was not engraved on the tall, gold Harmsworth Cup. Whether or not it will be is up to the Yachtsmen's Association of America which will meet to ponder the problem soon. The crew of a tugboat salvaged Miss England II. Her stern was cracked apart, her deck ripped off but her Rolls-Royce motors were practically undamaged. Her designer, Fred Cooper, declared she could be patched up and. with bigger motors, be made capable of 150 m. p. h. She was taken unrepaired to Toronto and placed, an equivocal exhibit of international...
...Gandhi, hope of millions of Indian Nationalists, continued his extraordinary progress to Britain last week aboard 5. S. Rajpntana. Spurning the cabin which the Government had put aside for his use. he slept under a thin sheet on a hard wooden bench in the stern. The ship's cat. a huge black torn, developed a taste for the Mahatma's goat's milk and purred peaceably beside...
Last week, however. Sir Thomas was a member. The Squadron's burgee flew from the Shamrock's truck and from the stern of his steam yacht Erin floated the White Ensign, a flag which only ships of the Royal Navy and yachts of the Royal Squadron may carry. But he did not set foot in the clubhouse last week or step on the sacred lawn. That was his rebuttal for the years that he had been denied membership...