Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Untested against stiff competition, Shean's slow-ball has successfully baffled Brown and Northeastern batters. Because of his past performances the newly discovered pitcher in certain to start one of the weekend games...
Four miles an hour is a stiff pace to accomplish hour after hour. Seventy miles requires this from 6:00 in the morning until 11:30 that night without a stop...
...Stiff Pace...
...forthcoming was the one announcement for which all correspondents were waiting: the date of the wedding. Not for several days was this vital declaration made; then the Duke revealed that he and Mrs. Warfield will be married on June 3. Reason announcement was delayed: a stiff three-cornered fight behind the scenes between the Duke, the British Government and the Royal Family. This time the trouble* was not money. Edward of Windsor was demanding, the Baldwin Government was doing everything in its power to prevent...
...National Guard and Reserve Corps. For every 100,000 civilian members of a U. S. church, one chaplain .is supplied to the Army, an interfaith commission acting as clearing house for the men. Applicants, who must be ordained and have three years' pastoral experience, take a stiff examination, if successful are commissioned as first lieutenants at $200 a month ($260 if married and not residents of an Army post). Top rank is colonel, with base pay of $4,000 a year, plus $156 a month if the chaplain has a family. Most chaplains are married...