Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spring's third time-trial Coach Tom Bolles' first eight showed its stern to the other three Varsity boats by a decisive distance in a workout over the rough mile and three-quarter course of the Charles River Basin late Saturday afternoon in preparation for the Rowe Cup Regatta on April...
...last week) buzzed around the southern squadron. They concentrated on the battleship, later identified as the Vittorio Veneto (35,000 tons, 15-inchers), which was hurt in the Taranto raid on Nov. 11 but had been repaired. Three torpedoes found the Vittorio Veneto's hull, probably in the stern works, and cut her speed from 32 to 15 knots...
...British destroyers-of which there must have been at least two divisions, eight craft-cut the sea up with torpedoes. Most of the destroyers carried eight torpedoes. The Havock, Captain Watkins, which gave a good account of herself at Narvik, signaled the flagship: "I am hanging onto the stern of the Pola. Shall I board her or blow her stern off with depth charges? Haven't any torpedoes left." But another destroyer got the Pola...
...ring. In the four years that Adam has sponsored the sportscasting of big-time bouts, it has boosted its business phenomenally, chiefly with radio plugs, built up a Latin-American market describing battles via short wave. Famed among finical fight enthusiasts is the NBC team of Sam Taub & Bill Stern that works for Adam, describing right hooks and Homburgs with equal competency...
...either. . . ." Ellen Glasgow has aroused even darker suspicions among U.S. readers. They have suspected that she is dull or highbrow, and have translated their suspicions into a considerable lack of interest. Some who have read her Barren Ground, without reading They Stooped to Folly, consider her a too stern daughter of the voice of God. Others who have read The Romantic Comedians, but not Vein of Iron, consider her a light-minded iconoclast from whose irony nothing is safe...