Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from one who has recently completed the course in question with a resulting opinion of almost diametrically opposite character, and who realizes that he is not entirely alone in his views. You have well described it as "a maze of dates, names and bibliography," to which is added "the stiff and remarkably comprehensive map requirements." The very complexity of detail considered robs the study and survey of much of its possible value. Interpretation of History is barely mentioned in the first half, only faintly considered in a few of the second term lectures, notably those of Professor...
...constant aim in these lectures, delivered when he held the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry in 1930-31, was not to add to the general sum of knowledge about Rembrandt; but to stimulate and further enjoyment in his works. And for this reason the lectures avoid the stiff formality of a thesis, and present an attitude as delightful as it is rare toward the work of the greatest of the Flemish school...
...House of Peers meet at present in a low, dingy frame building, which "looks like an orphan asylum," according to Japanese correspondents. To this Imperial orphanage went the peers of Japan last week, some in grey silk kimonos, more in frock coats and high button shoes, to sit on stiff benches behind wooden desks and listen to a speech actually addressed to the entire world: an explanation by Foreign Minister Count Yasuya Uchida of his country's foreign policy. Most cautiously, most meticulously was the speech prepared...
Forbidden by anti-trust laws to stabilize industries through monopolies or cartels, U. S. businessmen have turned to trade associations. If the industry is composed of numerous small and weak units (building, laundry, newsstands), racketeers often bring about stabilized conditions for a stiff price. In larger unit industries, the leadership comes from within. Though encouraged by the Department of Commerce and the Federal Trade Commission, trade associations are ever eyed suspiciously by the Attorney General's office. The potent Bolt, Nut & Rivet Manufacturers Association was dissolved. Famed suits are pending against the Asphalt Shingle & Roofing Institute, the Sugar Institute...
...bachelor kiss her in a conservatory till all hours. Tongues wagged her market-value down & down. The bloom off, nobody came near but drones. Monica peered, preened and pined to no avail. Her father disappointedly died, her old-maid friends grew more virginal every year, her mother kept a stiff lip stiffer. Things looked pretty dismal for Monica when the biggest drone of all finally settled on her. And the dreadful point of the story is that by that time Monica was really glad to have...