Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...merchant vessel. For this week's historic occasion they will not only be present, but Queen Mary herself will break a magnum of champagne across the monster's bow at the christening. Longer (1,018 ft.) than the Clyde is wide (see map), No. 534 will slide stern-first into the river, with tons of drag-chains coiled about her sides to check her momentum. The splash when she hits the water was expected to send eight-foot waves surging over an orchard on the opposite bank. To accommodate her stern, the River Cart, a tributary...
...Holyoke, which made testy gentlemen snort "rib factory" and "Protestant nunnery" when famed Mary Lyon founded it in 1837, is the eldest and most retiring of the five sisters. Always studious, always hard up, its students have been little changed by Depression. They dress drably and, under the large, stern shadow of Mary Emma Woolley, lead rather drab lives. There is no cinema house in South Hadley; the pictures President Woolley brings to the college are usually old, often dull. This year girls may smoke at specified times and places, a major concession on the part of Miss Woolley...
Beck v. Versailles. Vastly different was the impact on the League of Nations last week of that stern, ramrod-backed bean pole in human form, Polish Foreign Minister Josef Beck. Only when the craze for yo-yo tops struck Warsaw two years ago was Colonel Beck seen really to unbend, pumping his yo-yo up & down on its string with pleased dexterity. In the past year the Colonel has been on dangerous ground and he trod it firmly last week...
...Scotland Light . . . SOS. SOS, Di-di-di-da-da-da-di-di-di. . . . Can't hold out much longer. . . ." Blind, almost knocked out by the bitter smoke. "Sparks" Rogers and Alagna stumbled out of the wireless room. By that time the Morro Castle was an inferno from stem to stern...
...Phelpses were saved. "Govvie" jumped off the stern, found a dangling rope, clung to it for six hours. Said he afterward: "I had to watch women I'd met and danced with drop off one by one and hear their desperate and familiar voices pleading. Finally there was a perfect rain of people. A hundred or more came leaping over the side to escape a sudden burst of flames. They hit one another in the descent. Many sank like stones...