Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...usual, both sides had backed down from their original stiff demands-the operators for a 40-hour week with no increase in pay, the miners for a 30-hour week, $1,200 minimum pay per year, a two-week vacation with pay. With the 35-hr, week preserved, basic pay was raised 50? per day-to $6 in the North, $5.60 in the South-with increases of 55?to $1 per day for machine and piece work employes. Also for the first time, soft-coal miners were promised time-&-a-half pay for overtime...
When a Mensendiecker raises his right hand in a stiff-armed salute, he puts his weight on his right foot and thrusts his left leg backward. The left leg thus counterbalances the upraised right arm. Because Nazis and Fascists stand with their feet together when they salute, they strain themselves (according to Mensendieck theory) and are bound to have unesthetic legs and rumps...
...iron clothes, with the right hand. Keep the right knee stiff and the body's weight mainly on the right leg. Keep the left leg slightly to the rear, bending the knee and raising the heel slightly to keep the hips level...
Edward M. Rowe '27 declared that last night's speakers provided such stiff competition that he was unable, at these tryouts to single out individuals unworthy of retention for further tests. This afternoon at 6:00 o'clock, all competing debaters are expected to hand in briefs covering both the affirmative and negative views on the Supreme Court situation...
...President has had a busy year. In academic life he has defended stiff courses and hard examinations, emphasizing concentration and pointing to the tendency to take too many survey courses as of value only in "Twenty Questions." Lately he has been making a plea for a deeper study of History and has proposed a non-departmental, non - credit, extra - curricula course in American History to "Inoculate the student body with educational virus...