Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Rows altogether with arms. Doesn't catch hard enough. Is rather stiff. Must be more deliberate and keep better time...
...dyspepsia, and that they had to pose around the corridors as statuettes after the concert instead of charming the Wellesleyians with Harvard wit, and finally that, when they reached Cambridge, the driver had been obliged to roll them all out of the barge like barrels they were so stiff with the cold, in spite of these things-I say, the unanimous verdict is that everyone had a fine time, and everyone would look forward with eager anticipation to the day when the Pierian Sodality shall again play for the fair maids of Wellesley...
...stake-boat at the finish, and two small launches, chartered by '90 men, followed the race over the course. The tugs steamed up to the start at four, the "Sargent," with a band of music on board, hugging the shore and taking her time. It was very cold, a stiff breeze blowing straight up the course, and making the water lumpy, and for a little while it seemed to grow worse instead of mending. At the starting place the mill-dam was thronged with buggies loaded with spectators, which set off Bostonward the moment the race started. The wait...
...rather turgid sonnet on "Evangline" begins the number; then, after the editorials, a rather powerful story, the treatment of which is new, though the phraseology is somewhat stiff and threadbare. Following are three sweet, dreamy stanzas, entitled "Homeward." They improve on second reading, and with the couplets headed "Another Answer," bring the verse of this issue much above the average. Between the these two intervenes a not very pointed and somewhat cynical story, "Broen's Mistake." It has one fatal fault that it is not true to nature; now who does write truely cannot act truely, and his work...
...Fails to sit up. Slumps badly. Too stiff and jerky. Overreaches. Doesn't keep stomach out. Must keep shoulders down and head well up. Must get even pressure on stretcher...