Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...putting the treasures into press and starting their proper drying, before another active day of field work can be undertaken. Often enough, after stretching every muscle and testing every nerve in the ticklish ascent and descent of successive cliffs, we reach home with our knee-joints so lame and stiff that no one utters a single word of complaint at the enforced inactivity of the succeeding...
...retreat of Germany's stiff-necked Dr. Hjalmar ("Iron Man") Schacht at The Hague Reparations Conference last week was epic, masterful...
...peculiar strength of Dr. Schacht lies in the fact that the President of the Reichsbank is chosen for the inordinately long term of ten years, and is answerable during that time neither to the Reichstag, the Prime Minister nor the President of the Republic. Stiff-necked Dr. Schacht was appointed in 1923. Thus his term will not be up until 1933. Paradoxically the Allied Powers, whom he was challenging last week, themselves insisted on this arrangement in 1924, when the Dawes Plan was adopted. They feared that if German politicians could depose the head of the Reichsbank they might...
Flustered Drs. Curtius and Moldenhaur -comparative novices at international negotiations-wired hastily for Germany's "Iron Man,'' stiff-necked Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, President of the Reichsbank...
...Chinese Government's brusque decree abolishing "extraterritoriality"* (TIME, Jan. 6) drew such stiff protests from Washington, London and Japan that its execution had to be definitely stayed (TIME, Jan. 13). Last week the great powers were tongue-lashed by the Chinese official who is a sort of Chief Justice and Attorney General rolled into one, Dr. Hu Hanmin, president of the legislative Yuan or council...