Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brooklyn Navy Yard finished refurbishing an old 3O-ft. gig, fastened two swivel chairs in its stern cockpit, and installed a water cooler between them. When President Roosevelt boards the Houston at the end of this month the gig will be swinging from the cruiser's davits. ready as a fishing boat whenever the President feels inclined to cast a line overboard on his holiday journey to Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Pacific Coast, Hawaii...
...School at 29. A shining disciple of Justice Brandeis, he is regarded in Washington as the brilliant leader of the small minority of New Dealers who are true economic radicals. As chairman of the new Commission he would dominate its proceedings and make its administration a strict and stern affair for the stock trade...
...factory ships like the Sir James Clark Ross or the 25,000-ton Kosmos swallow the whale through a port in the stern and haul the carcass on deck. There flensers with knives as big as hoes strip the blubber, which produces the highest grade of oil. Power saws reduce the skeleton to handy chunks which can be tossed into steam digesters. In some ships the meat is canned (largely for Japanese consumption) and what scraps remain are ground or burned for fertilizer. For "whalebone," which is not bone but gargantuan mouth bristles, there is now almost no market...
...performances never lagged. When he came to the U. S., a violinist from the Cologne Orchestra in Germany, his first boss had been Chicago's Theodore Thomas, pioneer among U. S. orchestra-builders. After morning rehearsals, Conductor Thomas and young Frederick Stock went often to Zum Rothen Stern (now the Red Star Inn) on Chicago's North Clark Street. There, over many a bottle of wine, Conductor Thomas told his protege how he had left New York for the Midwest, how he had found new audiences fresh and stimulating. In 1905 Frederick Stock succeeded Thomas as conductor...
KIRKLAND LOWELLSeeman, 2b. 2b., NorrisPowell, 1b. c.f., LeeChristoph, c. s.s., DownerParker, Robinson, l.f. c., LeutkemeyerMoseley, s.s. p., WellsWells, 3b. 3b., SallsDonnelly, p. l.f., IllowayBuschman, Perry, c.f. r.f., Stern, WarrenPeter, r.f. 1b., Graf