Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Formal debating often involves the stiff presentation of set speeches that fail to establish a clash of issues. Technicalities of definition are pushed for all they are worth, and no rational basis for an understanding is reached. The decision is awarded on the basis of effective presentation, and the scramble for the decision results in the establishment of intrinsic rights and intrinsic wrongs on a question that is necessarily relative. Informal debating and parliamentary discussion in House debating clubs; with no decision at stake, lay the foundation for argument that seeks not merely to win but to establish truth...
...equip a factory to employ 125 men. To provide the factory with work, a provision was popped into the regular Post Office Appropriation bill to operate the factory and take over its output. Last week the House of Representatives dealt this favorite project of the First Lady a stiff blow...
...Indoor Athletic Building Pool at 8.30 o'clock tonight. The visitors, with an intensive week's schedule including Yale Wednesday and Brown last night, should offer little opposition to the Crimson swimmers, except in the back-stroke event where Gordon Chalmers is slated to give Captain Ed Stowell a stiff fight for first place...
...Cambridge this year. Only perfor- mances of acme quality on the part of the Harvard athletes will retain the team title for the Crimson. Cornell is particularly strong in the track events while Dartmouth has the edge in the field though both teams have the necessary balance to give stiff competition...
...yesterday by the score 20 to 10. Lindsay made 8 points for the victors and John Parker Ricketts 1B also aided the winning team with six markers. Mellon started with a whirlwind attack which gained 12 points before the Chase team could tally once. Chase then put up a stiff offensive but could not make up the difference...