Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Seymour Lowman, whose arm, so he said last month, (TIME, Sept. 19), "grows tired" some days signing dismissals from the Prohibition forces, took pen in hand one day last week and signed an order addressed to U. S. customs officials. The order instructed the customs men to make a stiff increase in the duty on automobile and bicycle parts, and certain other hardware including cement and vulcanized fibres, imported from France...
...University and Freshman polo squads had their first stiff scrimmage workout yesterday at Newton, the result of the practice game between the two fours being a tie of two goals...
Dancing with most B. U. men, the girls say, is back breaking. "They make you lean back so that you have a backache and a stiff neck the next day. They dance rather well, though...
...Repertory production is considerably above the average one expects on a repertory stage. The set which served for all three acts was attractive. The acting, though often a bit stiff, was on the whole perfectly satisfactory...
...Well, it was so doggone hot up there right under the light that the bed-bugs crawled out of the old seat upholstery and she was scared stiff when they started to bite...