Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...apart. At two and a half miles Cornell was a quarter of a length out and Syracuse had passed California. Then, "Open water." yelled the Cornell crowd. Captain Shoemaker and Coach Jim Wray, following their men in the Cornell launch, saw a slowly widening space appear between the Cornell stern and M. I. T.'s bow. Washington and the Navy were still in striking distance, but at the railroad bridge they were out of it and M. I. T. was trying wildly and uselessly to hold off Syracuse. Cornell was so far ahead now that the speed boats following...
...honorable gentleman wants to show that whatever he puts into a finance bill must be rammed through regardless of the cost to the house or to the party of which he is a prominent feature, if not always a bright ornament." The Chancellor made no reply, sat white and stern as Conservatives booed, Laborites cheered and Lady Cynthia Mosley, M. P. went out for a large cushion, brought it back into the House, lay down on a bench and ostentatiously went to sleep. (Her husband, Sir Oswald, resigned from the Cabinet after quarrelling with Chancellor Snowden ? TIME, June...
Then came the most important part of the ceremony. Clutching the ancient key in his black-cotton-gloved hand, Archbishop Söderblom walked to the edge of the nearby lake, stepped gingerly in the stern-sheets of the very small rowboat and sat down next to Count Magnus' nephew, Baron Friedrich von Essen (no Brahe, but heir to the Brahe estates). The silk-hatted, saturnine Majordomo of Castle Skokloster took the oars. While Sweden's King watched from the shore, Bishop, Baron and Majordomo rowed to the middle of the lake and plop went...
First Race. On a 23-mi. triangular course started: Whirlwind, owned by Paul L. Hammond's and Langdon Ketchum Thome's syndicate, a beamy, heavy boat with a white hull and green underbody, a pointed stern and "No. 3" on her sails; Enterprise, No. 4, owned by the Vice Commodore Winthrop W. Aldrich and Harold Stirling ("Mike") Vanderbilt syndicate, with Mr. Vanderbilt sailing her; Weetamoe, owned by Rear Commodore Junius Spencer Morgan's and George Nichols' syndicate, white and bronze, No. i; and the old boats, Gerard Barnes Lambert's Vanitie, and E. Walter Clark...
...moving picture of Massachusetts, it might be well to explain that this is a figure of speech only, and that the foundations of the state are apparently as sound as ever. But neither need this be a source of disappointment to the more sensational minded, for even if the stern New England rocks do not achieve positive animation, the film is of sufficient interest to warrant considerable attention...