Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only chance is to stand fearlessly neutral, as she did in 1914, but this time better prepared to fight. The Flemish element among King Leopold's subjects have always considered that his father, King Albert, was a fool for not selling to Kaiser Wilhelm II at a stiff price the right to let German troops peaceably cross Belgium to attack France. Whether His Majesty in any way now shares this view was entirely undisclosed last week, but in Antwerp especially pleased Flemings opined with widest smiles on their broad faces, "Our new King is no fool...
...come out of the University stiff this week. The seats are still comfortable enough, but you'll be bored stiff and then scared stiff, by "Walking On Air" and "The General Died at Dawn," respectively...
...equals Dartmouth: therefore, Harvard improved last week. Much more than this, however, game statistics show that the play was better, first downs more frequent. The team for the first time this season, under the fighting leadership of Captain Jim Gaffney, really showed its guts and persistence. They played a stiff game against more experienced players; came off with a moral victory after the last minute, offside defense before Harvard's score...
...second system, used by Yale, Columbia, and others, is to require a stiff pre-legal test, in addition to a satisfactory college record. The great danger in this is that it is extremely difficult before a man has had any legal work to tell whether he will make a success...
...constant battlers for the recognition of U. S. Art, Artists Davies and Bellows had little in common. Supersensitive, romantic Arthur Davies, painter of moonstruck nudes in mystic landscapes, was so shy that he spent most of his life hiding behind a bushy mustache and the tallest and tightest stiff collar haberdashers could furnish. He would stay locked in his studio painting furiously for days at a time, occasionally lunched frugally with his good friend Dealer William Macbeth. Only his burning interest in the technique of painting and the encouragement of young talent pulled him sufficiently out of himself to argue...