Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Late in the week, Berlin announced that dive bombers had come upon a British convoy west of Crete, and in the ensuing attack had scored "severe bomb hits of heavy and medium caliber" on the stern of one battleship, forward and starboard on another battleship, and also on a heavy cruiser...
Having less need for an extra stop watch since Tommy Harmon stopped running, glib, studious Bill Stern, top NBC sportscaster, turned his over to Socialite-Explorer Charles Suydam Cutting, chairman of the American Committee for Defense of British Homes, who is collecting 5,000 stop watches to send (with binoculars, small arms, steel helmets) to Britain to help ward off invasion...
Convoy (British production; R. K. O. release). The fog is everywhere. The hull of a ship slides out of it: before the stern is visible, the fog hides the hull. A whistle tears the softness with a shriek: the grey blanket settles down more softly than before. Scene: the North Sea, whose oily green waters, even in summer, look cold. Time: World War II. Action: the hushed, relentless pursuit and escape of Nazi and British ships, alternately each other's victims...
...movie film, corrected his airspeed readings for temperature and pressure. Pilot McDonough had reported his speed at something over 500. Actually, said technicians, he and the P39 had hit 620 m.p.h.-more speed than anyone had ever recorded before. Exciting rather than highly significant, the dive was still a stern test of P-39's sleekness, sturdiness...
When Curtis died in 1933 his newspapers were valued at more than $50,000,000. First the never profitable New York Post was sold to David Stern, publisher of the Philadelphia Record (who still owns a minority share). The 98-year-old morning Ledger was combined in 1934 with the Inquirer, two years later was sold to a Hearstwhile circulation strong man, Moses Louis ("Moe") Annenberg...