Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have piled up ten consecutive victories this season and are facing a Harvard team which has plenty of worries already. The Crimson has lost games at unexpected moments, such as the upset at Brown on Monday, and the Holy Cross and Georgetown defeats some time ago, and has a stiff return match with the Crusaders scheduled for Saturday...
...Approved stiff taxes on home-brew ingredients...
...year, and the Senior exams should be single (choice of several) essay questions on broad subjects of one's field. At any rate, they should not all be dropped like a guillotine at the end of the last year, to behead the student who has not developed a neck stiff enough to withstand such assaults. What the Senior examinations should alone determine is a man's fitness for honors. They should not deprive the man who fails of his degree. Such examinations should be given in the Junior year, with a second chance in the Senior year granted to those...
When Pearl Sydenstricker Buck sent the revised manuscript of The Good Earth to her publishers she explained that it might seem "a little stiff. ... I am quite bilingual in English and Chinese, and the story spun itself in Chinese, and I translated as I wrote." Last week this Chinese novel, long since a bestseller, came to new fame as the winner of a 1931 Pulitzer Prize...
...Lupien followed on with a double, scoring Mays and Thacher. The Crimson team evened the score two innings later when Mays received a pass and made the circuit with the aid of an error and a sacrifice. At this moment Powhida was sent in to relieve Jackson, despite the stiff workout he had had the day before when the Red and Blue bowed before Dartmouth. For the time being he forced the Crimson hitters to pop up with ineffectual flies, but loosened up in the eighth stanza, walking Gleason. A heroic single from McCaffrey's bat, scored the Harvard center...