Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Albany Airport where a trimotored plane waited to take him and ten relatives, friends and aides to Chicago. "It's a perfect day, isn't it?" called the Governor to cheering onlookers as he was lifted into the cabin. With stops at Buffalo and Cleveland, the air voyage against stiff winds required nine hours...
...Conn., June 22--Letting up gradually the last few days before the race, the Varsity and Jayvee crews took only a moderately stiff workout this morning, covering about four miles...
...Conn., June 20--Final workouts for the four Harvard crews in the last few days of training here before the race on Friday took on a lighter aspect today, the greater part of the stiff paddles having been wound up with Saturday's succession of time trials...
...Conn., June 16--Consistent with the theory that the week before the Yale race is the one in which the real work is done, and improvement made, the Varsity and Jayvee crews took an unusually hard workout this morning, followed by another stiff paddle in the afternoon. In the morning spin, the eights covered about seven miles in all, rowing down stream, while in the afternoon, for the first time this year, they rowed five miles upstream and back, almost to Norwich for a change of scenery...
...delay the financial condition of the country was growing worse. From day to day the Treasury's revenue estimates were shrinking. It became apparent that some broad new base of taxation might have to be sought. It also became apparent that some of the voting for stiff "nuisance taxes" was for the purpose of exciting potent public protest and driving the Senate toward some other tax. What tax this was, everyone knew-a Manufacturers' Sales Tax such as had been beaten in the House...