Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...tWILL the fellow who took by mistake from Memorial last night a dark brown Collins and Fairbanks stiff hat, please leave the same in the auditor's room...
WILL the fellow who took from Memorial Hall last Monday night a dark brown stiff hat, No. 7 1-8, from F. Savage & Co., leave the same at the auditor's office...
...remedy for the whole matter seems to be Sanders Theatre. It has one drawback, - there are no benches for note-taking; but with stiff covered note books it is easy for a man to take notes in his lap. Otherwise it seems entirely satisfactory. It certainly affords better surroundings for lectures on the Fine Arts than were afforded by Upper Dane; and above all, while being as easy to fill with the voice as Sever 35, it is large enough to accommodate with comfort all the men who wish to take the course...
Yesterday afternoon the practice race which had been arranged with the Bowdoin crew was rowed over the two mile course used in the class races. The day was wet and cold and a stiff easterly breeze caused very bad water on the exposed stretches. At 4.40 p. m. the two crews succeeded in getting into satisfactory positions and Mr. Richards the referee gave the word to start. Both crews caught the water almost at the same moment, and Bowdoin started off with 40 strokes to the minute, Harvard rowing 36. The difference between the two styles of rowing was very...
...Limp One" by Kenneth Brown is unique, to say the least. It is a fantastic sketch of physiology class of ghouls, the "limp one" being what Is familiarly known in medical parlance as a stiff." A number of "little moonbeams" are permitted to creep into the room and they form the medium through which the story is told. The style of the sketch is that of one of Anderson's fairy stories with a lack of the latter's delicacy of expression, one noticeable defect being the constant repetition of the expression "little moonbeams...