Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...never been in a varsity race, could do much to the big Navy boatload. Over the smooth water to high bridge the boats kept abreast, but at the bridge MacRae Sykes, sharp-faced stroke, put the beat up. In a few strokes open water showed at the Columbia stern and Navy could not close it even in the last few hundred yards with the traditional Navy sprint. Columbia's time was 6 min. 4½ sec., Navy's 6 min. 11 sec.-about a length and one-third...
...this seemed lefthanded, even back handed, it was nevertheless the most direct language which a President of France, in finitely hemmed about by regulations, may use. The climax of President Doumergue's speech was a stern demand that France think twice before deciding to reduce her armaments at the League of Nations Disarmament Conference which will meet next February. "France has a right," he declared in ringing tones, "to think that so long as the League of Nations, to whose existence she is so faithfully attached, has not at its disposal a military force sufficient to impose the execution...
...submarine is a utilitarian thing painted red and grey (for visibility against ice), 175 ft. long. Arched across its deck from stern to bow are two braced beams. They resemble sled runners. They really are runners, to enable the vessel to skid against the under side of polar ice. From the blunt, concrete-reinforced bow projects a long tubular feeler like the solitary tusk of the male narwhal. If under the dark ice the ship strikes an object (whale, rock, island, berg) which its great sub- aqueous searchlights do not disclose, the projecting feeler will ram back against compressed...
...wails of warning from Southern Drys, which helped only to advertise the gathering. The certain prospect of the kind of intraparty fight that only Democrats can stage drew throngs of spectators to the assembly. Senators, Representatives, National Committee members milled about in open anxiety. From the wall fell the stern gaze of Thomas Jefferson...
...first time in more than 300 years, so Japanese courtiers said, the officially divine Emperor, the Son of Heaven, went out last week "alone."' That is to say, Emperor Hirohito, climbed into a small motorboat, sternly commanded his entourage not to follow, and chugged off for the afternoon. At the helm was a common fisherman who did not count and two other common fishermen crouched beside him in the stern. Upon the prow sat the Divine One, eagerly peering out upon the waters through his spectacles for interesting specimens of seaweed. When the motorboat returned His Majesty had almost...