Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...diner and a day coach of the 15-car train were jerked off the track, rolled helter-skelter in grinding wreckage. Of 208 passengers, few escaped some injury. Thirty died, one of them P. O. Becker, toy train maker of Moline, Ill. Among the uninjured: Sports Broadcaster Bill Stern; a score or more Chinese in the custody of a U. S. marshal. Dead was veteran Engineer Earl, after 41 years' service. On him the New York Central line placed the blame, said the speed tape in his cab showed he had driven the Limited at a speed...
Moving pictures taken by Joseph S. Stern '40, who spent last summer in Cartwright, Labrador on a Phillips Brooks House summer jobs scholarship, will be shown at that time. They will tell of the life of the fishermen of Newfoundland and Labrador, the activities of the Grenfell mission among them, and the duties of a volunteer working for the mission. Stern will supplement the pictures by a running commentary and an informal discussion of social activities in which the mission workers share...
Several Henley time trials in the next ten days may possibly iron out the rough spots and get the boat swinging together, for Harvey Love is confident that when the potential power in the stern four is properly harnessed favorable results will be forthcoming. Until then it is a gamble...
...landowners who still practise the large courtesy of the frontier, a wise and cynical old lawyer, a rich and respected doctor whose sadism nobody quite suspects, a feeble-minded boy and a pack that picks on him, old farmers who still remember '49, a lonely Catholic priest, a stern old German music teacher...
Preacher Casy in the book was the medium through whose garrulousness Steinbeck presented a stern and simple moral. "We're all part o' one big soul." Casy said and reasoned from this that the individual salvation lies in common, united action. It was to this truth that Tom Joad awakened after the death of Casy. And it is this truth which underlies the whole book...