Word: sterned
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...sooner had the reports of the Sixth International Birth Control Conference been printed (TIME, Apr. 6) and circulated, than the great opponent of this movement uttered unalterably stern and solemn condemnation...
...still further. Men went aloft in sailor style, lowered a rope ladder over the bow, gather up the loose ends of the flapping cover and bunched them , together. They made untidy balls but prevented the fabric from ripping further. In the first burst of the gale, the ship traveled stern first for many miles, rolling constantly and threatening to head down into the water while the crew worked in life belts. Even when the return journey was possible, she sailed painfully at not more than ten miles an hour over the rough sea. When the airship got home, looking like...
...cradle of liberty still oscillates. The restless infant tosses within. The stern foot of governance steadies from without...
...Calvin Coolidge" are likely to be syndicated to the newspapers, published in book form, relegated to library stacks, listed in scholarly bibliographies. One letter, certain to be included if not previously destroyed, is a paternal rebuke to John Coolidge, Amherst Freshman. Whether the letter is long or short, stern or gentle, specific or general probably no one but father and son now knows. But this was its old, old theme...
...public for years without any year of suppression. Art magazines that no artist reads, glorifications of American womanhood that no lady buys. French indencies printed especially for exportation have openly proclaimed their attractions from every corner newsstand. Still the liberal and inoffensive satire of the Lampoon meets with stern suppression. The whole affair is an unwarranted abuse of the police power based upon a fine technicality...