Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...McGrath '31 and A. L. Watkins '31 are expected to place in the dashes. Vernon Munroe Jr. '31 and W. C. Rowe '31 are counted on for points in the quarter mile. The Freshmen are strong in the distance runs, but will meet stiff competition in every race of the meet tomorrow...
...Melrose A. C. indoor meet this winter Maryland nosed out the University one-mile relay team. Coach Farrell will make the winning of this event next Saturday a special objective. All the men will be given a stiff workout twice a day, as the main purpose of the trip is to get them into condition as quickly as possible...
...team leaves on Sunday and will arrive at Williamsburg on Monday. Coach Farrell will put his charges through stiff workouts twice a day for the whole week to condition the squad for the spring season. On Saturday the triangular meet among William and Mary, the University of Maryland, and Harvard will take place...
Whether the ultimate remedy for the existing situation lies in tacking a stiff language clause on to the divisionals, or in going to the other extreme and carrying the test of linguistic ability back into the secondary schools cannot now be determined. There are two definite steps, however, which the CRIMSON would like to offer for immediate consideration. In the first place cut the requirement down from two languages to one and raise the standards in that one to a point which would insure more than a superficial knowledge of it. Secondly, in all elementary courses advisable give assignments requiring...
...championship golf is there the same concentration of spectators on a delicate feat of skill, the success of which depends entirely on nervous control-as when, in a room filled with smoke, and banked on four sides by retreating slopes of intense watching faces, a billiard player in a stiff shirt and evening waistcoat, bending in a pour of white light over a green table, begins a run, clicking the cue ball against the two balls he is trying to keep against the cushion. When will he miss? Last week in San Francisco Edouard Horemans of Belgium shot 248 times...