Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...budget, retired $33,000,000 in bonds of the Province and augmented revenues while reducing taxes. This has been possible partly because of the return of better times, partly because "Mitch" discovered that numbers of wealthy Ontario families have been systematically cheating on the Province's stiff inheritance taxes for years and forced them to disgorge. The active Premier has abolished the amusement tax, extended pensions to the blind and allowances to mothers, and lowered motor license fees...
...British Ambassador to China Sir Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugesson (TIME, Sept. 6). Reports from London indicated that the reply was not worth waiting for: it contained no formal apology, was patently a Japanese attempt to gain time. The British Cabinet was thought likely to send another ''stiff note...
Gradually her strength was ebbing, and for nine years Babe had not been off her stiff old legs, because she realized that if she lay down, she would never rise again. Last week, ambling from her cage into the yard, Babe lifted her foot, tripped on the doorsill, fell to rise no more...
Russian icon painting, which remained in the stiff Byzantine tradition right to the outbreak of the World War, never reached the heights of similarly Byzantine painting in Siena, Italy, but did produce a few recognized masters in the 15th Century and during the reign of Ivan the Terrible. Of these greatest icon painters the Hammer Galleries showed a full two dozen. All were emphatically for sale...