Word: sterned
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...Social Service is anything but a silly name. Year after year the student is buoyed up by the hysteria of platform idealism to undertake something for which he has neither time nor interest. Year after year, the high-sounding phrases of early fall fade along towards winter, into the stern reality of a dirty, noisy neighborhood house. Boredom takes the place of quasi enthusiasm and the student struggles painfully and hopelessly for a while, only to let it all drop in the end. He knows then, as others do not know, that the whole shining structure of Social Service...
...Salvation Army training school needs missionaries of a stern type, for the job is admittedly difficult. Men with an understanding of the hardships of the bootlegger, and possessing the necessary courage to carry the gospel to dangerous places, should apply at once to the New York office
...hardy old merchant sat on the porch of his palace, last summer, gazed at the shipping inside the Golden Gate. Almost he could see the red flag on this stern and that?the red flag with the white $ on it. That stood for little Robbie Dollar, who romped about Falkirk, Scotland, more than three-quarters of a century ago. It stood for Robbie, the Canadian lumberjack, who ventured into business for himself, bought a 300-ton boat because lumber freights were so high. It stood for the ingenious skipper who, stranded in the Philippines without a return cargo, waded ashore...
WHAT PRICE GLORY?−The rumble of guns and the snatches of laughter that made war a stern but not so unhappy hell on the Western Front...
...adorned with hearts, arrows, and an intermingling of significant initials. If only their owners could express that spirit of budding manhood by clapping their hands, nudging one another, and snickering a bit, what fun there would be. There is something about the whole practice so in keeping with the stern traditions that have raised Harvard above the class of giggling schoolgirls that it seems well at this time to offer a gentle word of praise and congratulation...