Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the tourniquet be removed -a little item Dr. Gable forgot; secondly, a surgeon never operates on an unanesthetized person, as was the case in this picture-evidenced by the perfectly normal eye reflex; thirdly, he never stands at such a distance from the operating field that he works stiff-armed; fourthly, doctors don't interrogate each other as to the properties of morphine-that is analogous to asking someone what letter follows "A" in the alphabet; fifthly, there is not a hospital to be found where even a mere interne doesn't know the difference between diabetic...
Although it rides onto the field a slight favorite, the Harvard Varsity polo team will have a stiff battle against Yale this afternoon when it meets the Blue four at the Myopia Hunt Club in Hamilton at 3 o'clock...
...captured 43 lizards on Komodo in box traps baited with deer carcasses. They loosed all but eight, gave four by agreement to Java's Sourabaya Zoo. One of the remaining four died of seasickness on the way to the U. S. Another, ailing, was restored by a stiff dose of castor...
...take fast-moving bait, and at leaping, it is unsurpassed. Tarpon and sailfish also leap clear of the water, but not so high. And like those of tuna and marlin which thresh on the surface, their bodies, gills, fins and tails quiver in the air. The mako soars up stiff as a poker. For a moment it hangs motionless at 20 or 30 ft., blue of back, white of belly; its great pectoral fins spread wide. Then it flips over, falls back broadside to the sea with the splash of a wrecked airplane...
...Varsity and Junior Varsity rugby teams will meet the Princeton fifteen in New Jersey this afternoon. Vic Harding and Jim Potter, captain, will not be in the lineup due to injuries. The rest of the squad are all in good shape, and they should give their opponents a stiff battle...