Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lawson '32, displaying some of his best work of the year, won four of his bouts in the sabre preliminaries, putting the men he vanquished out of the running with decisive scores, but H. P. Walker '33 had such stiff competition against Ullman of Yale and Payne of Dartmouth that he was unable to win a single bout...
...socialism or for government poor relief. The strictures of the income tax will be felt where the depression has struck only lightly hitherto. In any case the rich do not wave a red flag. There have been casualties among the capitalists, but the dance has gone on. A stiff income tax may prevent the spectacle of a bread line shouldering the bejeweled guests at a charity ball...
...anxious thoughts on the peace of the Pacific. Last week Statesman Stimson was ready to take out these thoughts and put them down on paper. There was a sharp buzz of diplomatic excitement when Washington heard he was writing "something." Some correspondents predicted it would be a "stiff note" to Japan, protesting her aggression in China. Others forecast an "important statement of U. S. policy." When Mr. Stimson finished his composition, he summoned Senator William Edgar Borah, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, read him what he had written. Senator Borah nodded his head in grave assent, departed in silence...
...Stiff, unexpected Chinese resistance to the Japanese drive (which last week had been held up at Shanghai for exactly a month) was probably the factor that made Japanese Generals and Admirals uneasiest. Once in battle, a Japanese samurai ("two-sworded man") is barred by the Samurai Code from calling for help. A samurai is Lieut.-General Uyeda, Japanese military commander at Shanghai last week. When he and his army got utterly to the end of their rope, Samurai Uyeda did not call for help. But his good friend Admiral Nomura called and Tokyo sent help, sent enough troops to double...
...brilliance and enormous length. The chief gist of the Apes' preoccupations is revealed in the opening scene, where, outside Lady Fredigonde Follett's London mansion, "the policeman could be observed at his usual occupation known as Oh-dear-Mabel!, which consists in a repeated readjustment of the stiff melton trouser-fork, by a simultaneous flexion of both legs.'' What "Oh-dear-Mabel!" is for the policeman, the Artistic Life is for the Apes...