Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gone were the stiff penalties which previous drafts imposed upon banks caught speculating with Reserve funds. Dropped also was the extra rate banks would have had to pay for 15-day money on their own notes. Instead the Federal Reserve was given broad discretionary power to deal with banks which made "undue use" of their credit for speculative purposes. Senator Glass was sure his bill would "correct evils as to stock speculation unless dreadfully maladministered...
...element weather during the past week the Freshman heavyweight and 150-pound crews have been going through stiff daily practices on the Charles under the direction of Coach Haines...
...across the lines for a run of 50 and the match.* When Van Belle and Poensgen played their match, in the red-plush and gilt-scroll lodgeroom of the Elks' Club, they were the only undefeated players left in the tournament. Van Belle was nervous. Sitting in a stiff armchair, he puckered up his lips, blinked gloomily at the ivory joint of his cue while Poensgen had the table. He was only once able to get control of his game, for a brilliant run of 69, before Poensgen had the match 400 to 206. Poensgen was still undefeated when...
...last week a great northbound skein of wild whistling swans (less rare than the trumpeting species) settled upon Niagara River above the falls to spend the night. A stiff breeze that had been blowing upstream fell away. In the morning, rivermen found the icy gorge below the falls strewn with dead swans. Some 50 survivors sat huddled on the floes. Despite restraining efforts by officials of the Queen Victoria Park Commission, Riverman William ("Red") Hill, famed survivor of two trips through Niagara's rapids in a barrel (TIME, July 13), picked his way out on thence, frightened the foolish...
...sumptuously in Banker Otto Hermann Kahn's elegant dining room (see cut). Said he upon sailing: ''The two outstanding things in my visit . . . were meeting O'Neill and attending Mourning Becomes Electra. . . Americans have such easiness of approach. You are cordial and dignified without being stiff and conventional. Your phrase-'Be Yourself -I believe it is slang-seems a fair index of your attitude. It is good Ibsen...